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Ying Li; Talia Q. Halleck; Laura Evans; Paras Bhagwat Bassuk; Leiana Paz; Ö. Ece Demir-Lira – Developmental Science, 2024
In this study, we aimed to determine the role of parental praise and child affect in the neural processes underlying parent-child interactions, utilizing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning. We characterized the dynamic changes in interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) between parents and children (4-6 years old, n = 40…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior, Child Behavior
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Clark, Caron A. C.; Woodward, Lianne J. – Developmental Science, 2015
Executive control (EC) develops rapidly during the preschool years and is central to academic achievement and functional outcome. Although children with perinatal adversity are at known risk for EC impairments, little is known about the underlying nature of these impairments or the mechanisms that contribute to their development over time. Drawing…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Young Children, Cognitive Development, Perinatal Influences
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Sheridan, Margaret A.; How, Joan; Araujo, Melanie; Schamberg, Michelle A.; Nelson, Charles A. – Developmental Science, 2013
The association of parental social status with multiple health and achievement indicators in adulthood has driven researchers to attempt to identify mechanisms by which social experience in childhood could shift developmental trajectories. Some accounts for observed linkages between parental social status in childhood and health have hypothesized…
Descriptors: Social Status, Mothers, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Parent Influence
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Tomalski, Przemyslaw; Moore, Derek G.; Ribeiro, Helena; Axelsson, Emma L.; Murphy, Elizabeth; Karmiloff-Smith, Annette; Johnson, Mark H.; Kushnerenko, Elena – Developmental Science, 2013
Socioeconomic status (SES) impacts on both structural and functional brain development in childhood, but how early its effects can be demonstrated is unknown. In this study we measured resting baseline EEG activity in the gamma frequency range in awake 6-9-month-olds from areas of East London with high socioeconomic deprivation. Between-subject…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, Infants, Child Development
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Sabbagh, Mark A.; Seamans, Elizabeth L. – Developmental Science, 2008
We examined whether individual differences in children's performance on a scaled battery of theory-of-mind tasks was predicted by parents' performance on an adult theory-of-mind task. Forty-six 3-year-old children and their parents participated in this study when children were aged 2;11 to 4;0. Thirty dyads returned 6 months later for a second…
Descriptors: Correlation, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Young Children
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Farah, Martha J.; Betancourt, Laura; Shera, David M.; Savage, Jessica H.; Giannetta, Joan M.; Brodsky, Nancy L.; Malmud, Elsa K.; Hurt, Hallam – Developmental Science, 2008
The effects of environmental stimulation and parental nurturance on brain development have been studied extensively in animals. Much less is known about the relations between childhood experience and cognitive development in humans. Using a longitudinally collected data set with ecologically valid in-home measures of childhood experience and later…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Children, Brain, Language Acquisition
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Feldman, Ruth; Eidelman, Arthur I. – Developmental Science, 2009
Human development is thought to evolve from the dynamic interchange of biological dispositions and environmental provisions; yet the effects of specific biological and environmental birth conditions on the trajectories of cognitive and social-emotional growth have rarely been studied. We observed 126 children at six time-points from birth to 5…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Emotional Development, Cognitive Development, Environmental Influences
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Roby, Anna C.; Kidd, Evan – Developmental Science, 2008
The present study investigated the referential communication skills of children with imaginary companions (ICs). Twenty-two children with ICs aged between 4 and 6 years were compared to 22 children without ICs (NICs). The children were matched for age, gender, birth order, number of siblings, and parental education. All children completed the Test…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Play, Birth Order, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Stevens, Courtney; Lauinger, Brittni; Neville, Helen – Developmental Science, 2009
Previous research indicates that children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds show deficits in aspects of attention, including a reduced ability to filter irrelevant information and to suppress prepotent responses. However, less is known about the neural mechanisms of group differences in attention, which could reveal the stages of processing at…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mothers, Linguistics, Attention
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Carlson, Stephanie M.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Developmental Science, 2008
Advanced inhibitory control skills have been found in bilingual speakers as compared to monolingual controls ( Bialystok, 1999 ). We examined whether this effect is generalized to an unstudied language group (Spanish-English bilingual) and multiple measures of executive function by administering a battery of tasks to 50 kindergarten children drawn…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Family Income, Monolingualism, Raw Scores
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Maestripieri, Dario; Roney, James R.; Debias, Nicole; Durante, Kristina M.; Spaepen, Geertrui M. – Developmental Science, 2004
In this study we examined the relationship between menarche and interest in infants among adolescent girls, and the effects of early environment, particularly of father absence from home, on both variables. Eighty-three girls ranging in age from between 11 and 14 years served as study participants. Interest in infants was assessed through their…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Females, Fatherless Family, Infants
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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
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Asbury, Kathryn; Dunn, Judith F.; Plomin, Robert – Developmental Science, 2006
This longitudinal monozygotic (MZ) twin differences study explored associations between birthweight and early family environment and teacher-rated behaviour problems and academic achievement at age 7. MZ differences in anxiety, hyperactivity, conduct problems, peer problems and academic achievement correlated significantly with MZ differences in…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Academic Achievement, Hyperactivity, Effect Size