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Søndergaard Knudsen, Hanne B.; Jensen de López, Kristine; Archibald, Lisa M. D. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Multiple cognitive skills support the acquisition of proficient reading skills. Higher order processing abilities allowing the engagement and integration of multiple ideas collectively referred to as executive functions may be particularly important in reading comprehension. In the present study, 39 Danish school age children completed executive…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
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Kingo, Osman S.; Krojgaard, Peter – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
This study investigates the importance of object function (action-object-outcome relations) on object individuation in infancy. Five experiments examined the ability of 9.5- and 12-month-old infants to individuate simple geometric objects in a manual search design. Experiments 1 through 4 (12-month-olds, N = 128) provided several combinations of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Infants, Geometric Concepts, Experiments
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Tellings, Agnes; Bouts, Lex – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
Grade two through six elementary school Dutch children were asked to perform a lexical decision task including 90 pseudowords constructed by changing one or two letters in a Dutch word. Subsequently, the children were asked about the meaning of pseudowords they had not crossed out and that they, apparently, had considered to be words. Multiple…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Grade 6