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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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Meder, Björn; Wu, Charley M.; Schulz, Eric; Ruggeri, Azzurra – Developmental Science, 2021
Are young children just random explorers who learn serendipitously? Or are even young children guided by uncertainty-directed sampling, seeking to explore in a systematic fashion? We study how children between the ages of 4 and 9 search in an explore-exploit task with spatially correlated rewards, where exhaustive exploration is infeasible and not…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Discovery Processes, Children, Child Development