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Anqi Hu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Statistical learning (SL), the ability to detect and extract regularities from inputs, has been considered as an early-maturing and domain-general mechanism that is critical for typical language development. However, recent evidence in neurotypical adults and children have found that individuals can vary in their SL abilities across linguistic and…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Attention, Learning Processes, Age Differences
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Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde; Lucy B. Whitmore; Bianca Westhoff; Kathryn L. Mills – npj Science of Learning, 2022
The brain undergoes profound development across childhood and adolescence, including continuous changes in brain morphology, connectivity, and functioning that are, in part, dependent on one's experiences. These neurobiological changes are accompanied by significant changes in children's and adolescents' cognitive learning. By drawing from studies…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Learning, Brain
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Gilger, Jeffrey W. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2001
This introductory article briefly describes each of the following eight articles in this special issue on the neurology and genetics of learning related disorders. It notes the greater appreciation of learning disability as a set of complex disorders with broad and intricate neurological bases and of the large individual differences in how these…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Genetics, Individual Differences
Pracana, Clara, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2014, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 4 to 6 of April. Psychology, in our time, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and behavioral…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Prevention
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Bayliss, Donna M.; Jarrold, Christopher; Baddeley, Alan D.; Leigh, Eleanor – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2005
This study examined the factors that constrain the working memory span performance and reading ability of individuals with generalized learning difficulties. In the study, 50 individuals with learning difficulties (LD) and 50 typically developing children (TD) matched for reading age completed two working memory span tasks. Participants also…
Descriptors: Memory, Learning Problems, Word Recognition, Reading Ability
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Hanich, Laurie B.; Jordan, Nancy C.; Kaplan, David; Dick, Jeanine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Performance of 210 2nd graders in different areas of mathematical cognition was examined. Children were divided into 4 achievement groups. Although children with difficulties in mathematics performed worse than normally achieving groups in most areas of mathematical cognition, those with difficulty only in mathematics showed an advantage over the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Children, Cognitive Ability
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May, Deborah C.; Welch, Edward – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Examines the relationship between developmental placement as a result of preschool and kindergarten developmental testing and children's later cognitive achievement and social-emotional growth. A total of 223 children in Grades two through six were coded as traditional, overplaced, or "Buy a Year" depending on Gesell Screening Test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Grade Placement, Children, Cognitive Development
YOUNG, MILTON A. – 1967
ADDRESSED TO TEACHERS, THE BOOK EMPHASIZES THE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES OF CHILDREN, ENCOURAGES PROBLEM SOLVING OR DIAGNOSTIC TEACHING, AND MAKES CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS OF CHILDREN WTH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES. THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL IN PROVIDING FOR EACH CHILD'S NEEDS IS DISCUSSED, AND SUGGESTIONS ARE GIVEN FOR MAKING THE CLASSROOM A…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Environment, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Needs