NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Researchers2
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 67 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Natasha Chaku; Kelly Barry – Infant and Child Development, 2024
During adolescence, increases in pubertal hormones lead to reproductive maturity as well as changes in cognitive development. Yet, little is known about how to best characterize interindividual differences in hormone concentrations. The goal of the current study was to examine the antecedents and consequences of membership in empirically derived…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Puberty, Physiology, Biochemistry
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Block, Elisa; Farran, Emily K.; Van Herwegen, Jo – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The block design task (BDT) is a visuospatial measure that individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) perform poorly on. However, it is unclear what underlies their impaired performance. This study investigated whether poorer performance is a result of visuospatial difficulties, executive function (EF) difficulties, atypical looking strategies, or a…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Executive Function
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
West, Eloise; McCrink, Koleen – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
This experiment tests the age at which left-to-right spatial associations found in infancy shift to culture-specific spatial biases in later childhood, for both numerical and non-numerical information. Children ages 1-5 years (N = 320) were tested within an eye-tracking paradigm which required passive viewing of a video portraying a spatial…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Spatial Ability, Preschool Children, Video Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tran, Tammy; Tobin, Kaitlyn E.; Block, Sophia H.; Puliyadi, Vyash; Gallagher, Michela; Bakker, Arnold – Learning & Memory, 2021
There has been considerable focus on investigating age-related memory changes in cognitively healthy older adults, in the absence of neurodegenerative disorders. Previous studies have reported age-related domain-specific changes in older adults, showing increased difficulty encoding and processing object information but minimal to no impairment in…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Comparative Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Self Concept
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Dibek, Esin; Özdemir, Atiye Adak; Güven, Yildiz – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2019
The main purpose of this study was to assess children's skill in using a simple map. The study was conducted among 262 children (141 girls and 121 boys), aged between 61-78 months (average 71 months), attending to 4 public pre-schools in Istanbul, Turkey. The simple map skills (requiring mental rotation and understanding spatial relation) of the…
Descriptors: Map Skills, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Age Differences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Thomas, Rhiannon L.; Misra, Reeva; Akkunt, Emine; Ho, Cristy; Spence, Charles; Bremner, Andrew J. – Developmental Science, 2018
An ability to detect the common location of multisensory stimulation is essential for us to perceive a coherent environment, to represent the interface between the body and the external world, and to act on sensory information. Regarding the tactile environment "at hand", we need to represent somatosensory stimuli impinging on the skin…
Descriptors: Sensory Integration, Infants, Child Development, Tactual Perception
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Simmering, Vanessa R.; Wood, Chelsey M. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Working memory is a basic cognitive process that predicts higher-level skills. A central question in theories of working memory development is the generality of the mechanisms proposed to explain improvements in performance. Prior theories have been closely tied to particular tasks and/or age groups, limiting their generalizability. The cognitive…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Young Children, Visual Perception, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Morey, Candice C.; Mareva, Silvana; Lelonkiewicz, Jaroslaw R.; Chevalier, Nicolas – Developmental Science, 2018
The emergence of strategic verbal rehearsal at around 7 years of age is widely considered a major milestone in descriptions of the development of short-term memory across childhood. Likewise, rehearsal is believed by many to be a crucial factor in explaining why memory improves with age. This apparent qualitative shift in mnemonic processes has…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Mnemonics, Child Development, Qualitative Research
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Macizo, P.; Soriano, M. F.; Paredes, N. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
We evaluated phonological and visuospatial working memory (WM) in autism spectrum disorders. Autistic children and typically developing children were compared. We used WM tasks that measured phonological and visuospatial WM up to the capacity limit of each children. Overall measures of WM did not show differences between autistic children and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Capio, C. M.; Mak, T. C. T.; Tse, M. A.; Masters, R. S. W. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2018
Background: Conclusive evidence supports the importance of fundamental movement skills (FMS) proficiency in promoting physical activity and countering obesity. In children with Down Syndrome (DS), FMS development is delayed, which has been suggested to be associated with balance deficits. This study therefore examined the relationship between FMS…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Children, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Disabilities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Vugs, Brigitte; Hendriks, Marc; Cuperus, Juliane; Knoors, Harry; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This longitudinal study examined differences in the development of working memory (WM) between children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children. Further, it explored to what extent language at ages 7-8 years could be predicted by measures of language and/or WM at ages 4-5 years. Method: Thirty…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Short Term Memory, Children, Language Impairments
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lim, Kah Heng Alexander; Loo, Zhou Yaw; Goldie, Stephen J.; Adams, Justin W.; McMenamin, Paul G. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is an emerging technology capable of readily producing accurate anatomical models, however, evidence for the use of 3D prints in medical education remains limited. A study was performed to assess their effectiveness against cadaveric materials for learning external cardiac anatomy. A double blind randomized…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Anatomy, Teaching Methods, Human Body
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ben Kenward; Felix-Sebastian Koch; Linda Forssman; Julia Brehm; Ida Tidemann; Annette Sundqvist; Carin Marciszkom; Tone Kristine Hermansen; Mikael Heimann; Gustaf Gredebäck – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Saccade latency is widely used across infant psychology to investigate infants' understanding of events. Interpreting particular latency values requires knowledge of standard saccadic RTs, but there is no consensus as to typical values. This study provides standard estimates of infants' (n = 194, ages 9 to 15 months) saccadic RTs under a range of…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Infant Behavior, Infants, Adults
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Solomon, Tracy L.; Vasilyeva, Marina; Huttenlocher, Janellen; Levine, Susan C. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Understanding measurement units is critical to mathematics and science learning, but it is a topic that American students find difficult. In 3 studies, we investigated the challenges underlying this difficulty in kindergarten and second grade by comparing performance on different versions of a linear measurement task. Children measured crayons…
Descriptors: Children, Spatial Ability, Concept Formation, Measurement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sella, Francesco; Berteletti, Ilaria; Lucangeli, Daniela; Zorzi, Marco – Developmental Psychology, 2015
In the number-to-position task, with increasing age and numerical expertise, children's pattern of estimates shifts from a biased (nonlinear) to a formal (linear) mapping. This widely replicated finding concerns symbolic numbers, whereas less is known about other types of quantity estimation. In Experiment 1, Preschool, Grade 1, and Grade 3…
Descriptors: Computation, Numbers, Preschool Children, Grade 1
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5