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Liberman, Zoe; Gerdin, Emily; Kinzler, Katherine D.; Shaw, Alex – Developmental Science, 2020
Socially savvy individuals track what they know and what other people likely know, and they use this information to navigate the social world. We examine whether children expect people to have shared knowledge based on their social relationships (e.g., expecting friends to know each other's secrets, expecting members of the same cultural group to…
Descriptors: Children, Interpersonal Relationship, Logical Thinking, Age Differences
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Morsanyi, Kinga; Devine, Amy; Nobes, Alison; Szucs, Denes – Developmental Science, 2013
This study examined performance on transitive inference problems in children with developmental dyscalculia (DD), typically developing controls matched on IQ, working memory and reading skills, and in children with outstanding mathematical abilities. Whereas mainstream approaches currently consider DD as a domain-specific deficit, we hypothesized…
Descriptors: Gifted, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Skills, Logical Thinking
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Morsanyi, Kinga; Holyoak, Keith J. – Developmental Science, 2010
Recent studies (e.g. Dawson et al., 2007) have reported that autistic people perform in the normal range on the Raven Progressive Matrices test, a formal reasoning test that requires integration of relations as well as the ability to infer rules and form high-level abstractions. Here we compared autistic and typically developing children, matched…
Descriptors: Autism, Short Term Memory, Logical Thinking, Inferences