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Bruce, Madeleine; Savla, Jyoti; Bell, Martha Ann – Developmental Science, 2023
Across the early childhood period of development, young children exhibit considerable growth in their executive functioning (EF) and vocabulary abilities. Understanding the developmental trajectory of these seemingly interrelated processes is important as both early vocabulary and EF have been shown to predict critical academic and socio-emotional…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Executive Function, Child Development, Preschool Children
Jasinska, Kaja K.; Shuai, Lan; Lau, Airey N. L.; Frost, Stephen; Landi, Nicole; Pugh, Kenneth R. – Developmental Science, 2021
Understanding how pre-literate children's language abilities and neural function relate to future reading ability is important for identifying children who may be at-risk for reading problems. Pre-literate children are already proficient users of spoken language and their developing brain networks for language become highly overlapping with brain…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Skills, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
Dumont, Émilie; Castellanos-Ryan, Natalie; Parent, Sophie; Jacques, Sophie; Séguin, Jean R.; Zelazo, Philip David – Developmental Science, 2022
Whereas accuracy is used as an indicator of cognitive flexibility in preschool-age children, reaction time (RT), or a combination of accuracy and RT, provide better indices of performance as children transition to school. Theoretical models and cross-sectional studies suggest that a speed-accuracy tradeoff may be operating across this transition,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Cognitive Ability, Reaction Time
Bosiljka Milosavljevic; Caylee J. Cook; Tijan Fadera; Giulia Ghillia; Steven J. Howard; Hleliwe Makaula; Ebrima Mbye; Samantha McCann; Rebecca Merkley; Mbulelo Mshudulu; Mariama Saidykhan; Ebou Touray; Nosibusiso Tshetu; Clare Elwell; Sophie E. Moore; Gaia Scerif; Catherine E. Draper; Sarah Lloyd-Fox – Developmental Science, 2024
Executive functions (EFs) in early childhood are predictors of later developmental outcomes and school readiness. Much of the research on EFs and their psychosocial correlates has been conducted in high-income, minority world countries, which represent a small and biased portion of children globally. The aim of this study is to examine EFs among…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Environmental Influences, Predictor Variables, Preschool Children
Mitsven, Samantha G.; Perry, Lynn K.; Tao, Yudong; Elbaum, Batya E.; Johnson, Neil F.; Messinger, Daniel S. – Developmental Science, 2022
Over half of US children are enrolled in preschools, where the quantity and quality of language input from teachers are likely to affect children's language development. Leveraging repeated objective measurements, we examined the rate per minute and phonemic diversity of child and teacher speech-related vocalizations in preschool classrooms and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Phonemic Awareness, Oral Language, Predictor Variables
Nin, Verónica; Delgado, Hernán; Muniz-Terrera, Graciela; Carboni, Alejandra – Developmental Science, 2022
Executive functions (EF), either conceptualized as skills involved in regulation of cognition and emotion in service of goal-oriented behavior, or reductively as working memory, flexibility and inhibitory control, are commonly invoked constructs in developmental science. Two main traditions on EFs measurement prevail, one consisting of ratings…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Cognitive Measurement, Behavior Rating Scales, Preschool Children
A. Delcenserie; F. Genesee; F. Champoux – Developmental Science, 2024
Recent evidence suggests that deaf children with CIs exposed to nonnative sign language from hearing parents can attain age-appropriate vocabularies in both sign and spoken language. It remains to be explored whether deaf children with CIs who are exposed to early nonnative sign language, but only up to implantation, also benefit from this input…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Linguistic Input, Phonology, Nonverbal Communication
Chevalier, Nicolas; Dauvier, Bruno; Blaye, Agnès – Developmental Science, 2018
Emerging cognitive control supports increasingly adaptive behaviors and predicts life success, while low cognitive control is a major risk factor during childhood. It is therefore essential to understand how it develops. The present study provides evidence for an age-related shift in the type of information that children prioritize in their…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Cues, Executive Function, Adjustment (to Environment)
Slusser, Emily; Ribner, Andrew; Shusterman, Anna – Developmental Science, 2019
Children's early math skills have been hailed as a powerful predictor of academic success. Disparities in socioeconomic context, however, also have dramatic consequences on children's learning. It is therefore critical to investigate both of these distinct contributors in order to better understand the early foundations of children's academic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Predictor Variables, Socioeconomic Status, Vocabulary
Lourenco, Stella F.; Aulet, Lauren S. – Developmental Science, 2019
There is general agreement that humans represent numerical, spatial, and temporal magnitudes from early in development. However, there is disagreement about whether different magnitudes converge within a general magnitude system and whether this system supports behavioral demonstrations of cross-magnitude interactions at different developmental…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Infants, Preschool Children, Age Differences
Ece Demir-Lira, Ö.; Applebaum, Lauren R.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Levine, Susan C. – Developmental Science, 2019
It is widely believed that reading to preschool children promotes their language and literacy skills. Yet, whether early parent-child book reading is an index of generally rich linguistic input or a unique predictor of later outcomes remains unclear. To address this question, we asked whether naturally occurring parent-child book reading…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Linguistic Input
Mahr, Tristan; Edwards, Jan – Developmental Science, 2018
Children learn words by listening to caregivers, and the quantity and quality of early language input predict later language development. Recent research suggests that word recognition efficiency may influence the relationship between input and vocabulary growth. We asked whether language input and lexical processing at 28-39 months predicted…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Listening, Linguistic Input, Language Processing
Hoff, Erika; Quinn, Jamie M.; Giguere, David – Developmental Science, 2018
A close relationship between children's vocabulary size and the grammatical complexity of their speech is well attested but not well understood. The present study used latent change score modeling to examine the dynamic relationships between vocabulary and grammar growth within and across languages in longitudinal data from 90 simultaneous…
Descriptors: Correlation, Vocabulary, Grammar, Children
Ding, Xiao Pan; Heyman, Gail D.; Fu, Genyue; Zhu, Bo; Lee, Kang – Developmental Science, 2018
We investigated how the ability to deceive emerges in early childhood among a sample of young preschoolers (Mean age = 34.7 months). We did this via a 10-session microgenetic method that took place over a 10-day period. In each session, children played a zero-sum game against an adult to win treats. In the game, children hid the treats and had…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Deception, Games, Rewards
Diaz, Vanessa; Farrar, M. Jeffrey – Developmental Science, 2018
Bilingual preschoolers often perform better than monolingual children on false-belief understanding. It has been hypothesized that this is due to their enhanced executive function skills, although this relationship has rarely been tested or supported. The current longitudinal study tested whether metalinguistic awareness was responsible for this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Longitudinal Studies, Metalinguistics, Executive Function
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