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Contribution of Executive Functions to Learning Sequential Actions in Young Children
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Yanaoka, Kaichi; Saito, Satoru – Child Development, 2021
This study examined whether executive functions impact how flexibly children represent task context in performing repeated sequential actions. Japanese children in Experiments 1 (N = 52; 3-6 years) and 2 (N = 50, 4-6 years) performed sequential actions repeatedly; one group received reminders. Experiment 1 indicated that reminders promote flexible…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Sequential Learning, Children, Foreign Countries
Atypical Multisensory Integration and the Temporal Binding Window in Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Kawakami, Sayaka; Uono, Shota; Otsuka, Sadao; Yoshimura, Sayaka; Zhao, Shuo; Toichi, Motomi – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
The present study examined the relationship between multisensory integration and the temporal binding window (TBW) for multisensory processing in adults with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The ASD group was less likely than the typically developing group to perceive an illusory flash induced by multisensory integration during a sound-induced…
Descriptors: Sensory Integration, Time, Children, Autism
A Research of Analysing the Effectiveness of Speaking-Pen on English Learning in Consideration of Individual Differences Using a Linear Mixed-Effect Model
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Tsubak, Michiko; Maeda, Yoshihiro – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan (2011) started the 'Foreign Language Activities' in fifth grade based on the new Courses of Study in April of 2011. The ministry has considered beginning this course in third grade and the 'English Course' in 5th grade in order to improve students' reading, writing,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Individual Differences, Instructional Effectiveness, English (Second Language)
An Investigation of Children's Peer Trust across Culture: Is the Composition of Peer Trust Universal?
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Betts, Lucy R.; Rotenberg, Ken J.; Petrocchi, Serena; Lecciso, Flavia; Sakai, Atsushi; Maeshiro, Kazumi; Judson, Helen – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
The components of children's trust in same-gender peers (trust beliefs, ascribed trustworthiness, and dyadic reciprocal trust) were examined in samples of 8-11-year-olds from the UK, Italy, and Japan. Trust was assessed by children's ratings of the extent to which same-gender classmates kept promises and kept secrets. Social relations analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Children, Peer Relationship
Japanese and American Children's Evaluations of Peer Exclusion, Tolerance of Differences, and Prescriptions for Conformity.
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Killen, Melanie; Crystal, David S.; Watanabe, Hirozumi – Child Development, 2002
Surveyed fourth-, seventh-, and tenth-graders in Japan and the United States regarding evaluations of peer group exclusion of atypical peers. Found that with increasing age, children demonstrated sensitivity to context (reason the peer was different) and believed that the excluded child should not change to be accepted. Girls were less willing to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Research and Clinical Center for Child Development Annual Report, 1995-1996, No. 19.
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Wakai, Kunio, Ed.; Chen, Shing-Jen, Ed.; Furutsuka, Takashi, Ed.; Shirotani, Yukari, Ed. – 1997
This annual report discusses several topics related to the work of the Research and Clinical Center for Child Development at Hokkaido University in Japan. The articles are: (1) "Heart to Heart (Inter "Jo") Resonance: Taking Japanese Concept of Intersubjectivity Out of Everyday Life" (Shigeru Nakano); (2) "Intersubjectivity…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development, Child Rearing