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Floor Vandecruys; Maaike Vandermosten; Bert De Smedt – Developmental Science, 2024
Children's white matter development is driven by experience, yet it remains poorly understood how it is shaped by attending formal education. A small number of studies compared children before and after the start of formal schooling to understand this, yet they do not allow to separate maturational effects from schooling-related effects. A clever…
Descriptors: Child Development, Reading Ability, Mathematical Aptitude, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Bentley, Laura A.; Eager, Rebecca; Savage, Sally; Nielson, Cathy; White, Sonia L. J.; Williams, Kate E. – Developmental Science, 2023
The benefits of active music participation and training for cognitive development have been evidenced in multiple studies, with this link leveraged in music therapy approaches with clinical populations. Although music, rhythm, and movement activities are widely integrated into children's play and early education, few studies have systematically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Intervention
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DeGarmo, David S.; Forgatch, Marion S. – Developmental Science, 2005
This paper reports on an experimental test of coercion theory early onset model of delinquency. Results are from the Oregon Divorce Study-II, a randomized preventive intervention trial with a sample of 238 recently separated mothers and their sons in early elementary school. The objective was to experimentally manipulate parenting variables…
Descriptors: Child Development, Divorce, Intervention, Delinquency