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Rakoczy, Hannes; Oktay-Gür, Nese – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
When do children acquire a meta-representational Theory of Mind? False Belief (FB) tasks have become the litmus test to answer this question. In such tasks, subjects must ascribe a non-veridical belief to another agent and predict/explain her actions accordingly. Empirically, children pass explicit verbal versions of FB tasks from around age 4.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Theory of Mind, Beliefs, Task Analysis
McGuire, Katherine L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Children have traditionally been viewed as less reliable witnesses than are adults. More recently, a concept known as developmental reversals, has brought this view into question. Developmental reversals have demonstrated that in certain contexts, children produce fewer false memories than adults. The primary paradigm used to demonstrate…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Processes, Context Effect, Accuracy
Meristo, Marek; Strid, Karin – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
Being connected to other people at the level of inner and unobservable mental states is one of the most essential aspects of a meaningful life, including psychological well-being and successful cooperation. The foundation for this kind of connectedness is our theory of mind (ToM), that is the ability to understand our own and others' inner…
Descriptors: Deafness, Eye Movements, Well Being, Theory of Mind
Sobel, David M.; Erb, Christopher D.; Tassin, Tiffany; Weisberg, Deena Skolnick – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2017
Young children can engage in diagnostic reasoning. However, almost all research demonstrating such capacities has investigated children's inferences when the individual efficacy of each candidate cause is known. Here we show that there is development between ages five and seven in children's ability to reason about the number of candidate causes…
Descriptors: Inferences, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
He, Wei; Yang, Yingying; Gao, Dingguo – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
There have been mixed results in studies investigating proportional reasoning in young children. The current study aimed to examine whether providing visual scaling cues and structuring the reasoning process can improve proportional reasoning in 5- to 6-year-old children. In a series of computerized tasks, children compared the sweetness of 2…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Young Children, Task Analysis, Evaluative Thinking
Huang, Yi; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
Map reading is unique to humans but is present in people of diverse cultures, at ages as young as 4 years old. Here, we explore the nature and sources of this ability and ask both what geometric information young children use in maps and what nonsymbolic systems are associated with their map-reading performance. Four-year-old children were given…
Descriptors: Maps, Task Analysis, Correlation, Young Children
Ishigami, Yoko; Klein, Raymond M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
The current study examined the robustness, stability, reliability, and isolability of the attention network scores (alerting, orienting, and executive control) when young children experienced repeated administrations of the child version of the Attention Network Test (ANT; Rueda et al., 2004). Ten test sessions of the ANT were administered to 12…
Descriptors: Measurement, Attention, Scores, Executive Function
Nicoladis, Elena; Jiang, Zixia – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
The primary purpose of the present study was to test language and cognitive predictors of lexical selection in the storytelling of monolingual and bilingual children. Measures of language proficiency and cognitive ability were assessed with both English- and Mandarin-speaking monolinguals and Mandarin-English bilinguals aged 4 to 6 years old. To…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Vocabulary Development
Mayer, Andreas; Träuble, Birgit – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
Previous cross-cultural research using false-belief tasks has explored whether children's theory of mind develops synchronously across cultures. Success on false-belief tasks is usually interpreted as an important indicator of children's mental state understanding, but inconsistent findings have led to questions regarding the interpretation of…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Theory of Mind, Task Analysis
Möhring, Wenke; Newcombe, Nora S.; Levine, Susan C.; Frick, Andrea – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
Proportional reasoning involves thinking about parts and wholes (i.e., about fractional quantities). Yet, research on proportional reasoning and fraction learning has proceeded separately. This study assessed proportional reasoning and formal fraction knowledge in 8- to 10-year-olds. Participants (N = 52) saw combinations of cherry juice and water…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Abstract Reasoning, Mathematics Skills, Fractions
Lyon, Thomas D.; Quas, Jodi A.; Carrick, Nathalie – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Two studies examined young children's early understanding and evaluation of truth telling and lying and the role that factuality plays in their judgments. Study 1 (one hundred four 2- to 5-year-olds) found that even the youngest children reliably accepted true statements and rejected false statements and that older children's ability to…
Descriptors: Deception, Cognitive Ability, Toddlers, Young Children
Baron, Andrew Scott; Dunham, Yarrow; Banaji, Mahzarin; Carey, Susan – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Determining which dimensions of social classification are culturally significant is a developmental challenge. Some suggest this is accomplished by differentially privileging intrinsic visual cues over nonintrinsic cues (Atran, 1990; Gil-White, 2001), whereas others point to the role of noun labels as more general promoters of kind-based reasoning…
Descriptors: Cues, Classification, Nouns, Visual Stimuli
Danovitch, Judith H.; Alzahabi, Reem – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Although children are often exposed to technological devices early in life, little is known about how they evaluate these novel sources of information. In two experiments, children aged 3, 4, and 5 years old ("n" = 92) were presented with accurate and inaccurate computer informants, and they subsequently relied on information provided by…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Young Children, Information Sources, Preferences
Hund, Alycia M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
Two experiments investigated how absolute and relative distance shape adults' and young children's ratings concerning the extent to which the term "by" describes the relation between locations. Three- and 4-year-old children and adults were asked to rate how well the word "by" described the relation between several blocks and a landmark. The…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adults, Toys, Task Analysis
Bialystok, Ellen; Barac, Raluca; Blaye, Agnes; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
The effect of bilingualism on the cognitive skills of young children was investigated by comparing performance of 162 children who belonged to one of two age groups (approximately 3- and 4.5-year-olds) and one of three language groups on a series of tasks examining executive control and word mapping. The children were monolingual English speakers,…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Vocabulary
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