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Lydia Paulin Schidelko; Hannes Rakoczy – Cognitive Science, 2025
The standard view on Theory of Mind (ToM) is that the mastery of the false belief (FB) task around age 4 marks the ontogenetic emergence of full-fledged meta-representational ToM. Recently, a puzzling finding has emerged: Once children master the FB task, they begin to fail true belief (TB) control tasks. This finding threatens the validity of FB…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Theory of Mind, Beliefs, Young Children
Marta Bialecka; Arkadiusz Gut; Malgorzata Stepien-Nycz; Krystian Macheta; Jakub Janczura – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Previous research on children's knowledge about the mind has primarily focused on their comprehension of false beliefs, leaving the conceptualization of thoughts and thinking less explored. To address this gap, we developed a new assessment tool, the interview about the mind (IaM), to assess children's understanding of the mind. Two studies…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Theory of Mind, Cognitive Development, Beliefs
Shih-Chieh Lee; Chien-Yu Huang; I-Ning Fu; Kuan-Lin Chen – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Multidimensional theory of mind assessments should include items assessing both explicit theory of mind (theory of mind knowledge) and applied theory of mind (application of theory of mind knowledge in real-life contexts). However, the two theory of mind scores cannot be interpreted collectively to identify children having mismatched explicit and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theory of Mind, Cognitive Development, Intelligence Tests
Lindsay C. Bowman; Amanda C. Brandone – Developmental Science, 2024
Behavioral research demonstrates a critical transition in preschooler's mental-state understanding (i.e., theory of mind; ToM), revealed most starkly in performance on tasks about a character's false belief (e.g., about an object's location). Questions remain regarding the neural and cognitive processes differentiating children who pass versus…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Theory of Mind
Yiyi Chen; Zihe Ding – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Digitalization can potentially benefit the creative and cognitive development of children. This study aims to analyze this impact on a sample of preschool children. A total of 80 preschoolers were divided into four groups based on their age and program variables: there were two groups (control and training) of children aged 3 to 4 years and two…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Young Children, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Yuying Sun; Jia Zhou; Huiqin Zhu; Panting Liu; Huanxi Lin; Zhenglu Xiao; Xinyue Yu; Jun Qian; Meiling Tong; Xia Chi; Qin Hong – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of auditory processing (AP) in preschool children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using the speech auditory brainstem response (speech-ABR), which provides insights into the AP of speech signals in the central auditory nervous system (CANS). Method: A total of 84…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Preschool Children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Speech Communication
Meredith Pecukonis; Meryem Yücel; Henry Lee; Cory Knox; David A. Boas; Helen Tager-Flusberg – Developmental Science, 2025
Previous research suggests that book reading and screen time have contrasting effects on language and brain development. However, few studies have explicitly investigated whether children's brains function differently during these two activities. The present study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure brain response in 28…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Childrens Literature, Electronic Books
Katy L. Unwin; Georgina Powell; Alice Price; Catherine R. G. Jones – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Multi-sensory environments are widely used with autistic children. However, there are no data on how autistic children choose to spend time in the room and how this relates to their sensory, behavioural and intellectual profiles. We observed the frequency and duration of visits to multi-sensory environment equipment of 41 autistic children during…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Educational Equipment, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities
Alison E. Calentino; Nathan M. Hager; Elise M. Adams; Aline K. Szenczy; Lindsay Dickey; Autumn Kujawa; Greg Hajcak; Brady D. Nelson; Daniel N. Klein – Child Development, 2025
The late positive potential (LPP), an event-related potential reflecting affective processing, may exhibit developmental shifts in magnitude and scalp location. In the present longitudinal study, 501 youth (47.3% female; 89.4% White; 12.0% Hispanic) completed the emotion interrupt task to elicit the LPP to neutral, positive, and negative images at…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Children, Adolescents
Edna Orr; Rinat Caspi – Child Care in Practice, 2025
The association between parents' work-family conflicts and children's academic outcomes is an understudied topic. The present research investigates the role of quadratic measures--parental working hours' scale, parental age, parental interaction quality, and learning materials at home--in children's cognitive outcomes. It employs a community…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Children, Parents, Work Life Expectancy
Melike Acar; Ozce Sivis; Vincent H. Sienkiewicz – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study examined children's emotion attributions and moral judgements to hypothetical procedural justice outcomes when the candidates were equal in merit but different in need. Children (7 to 11 years old, N = 88) were presented with four vignettes depicting resource-rich and resource-poor candidates losing educational materials and…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Alicia K. Jones; Shalini Gautam; Jonathan Redshaw – Child Development, 2025
Counterfactual emotions such as regret may aid future decision-making by encouraging people to focus on controllable features of personal past events. However, it remains unclear when children begin to preferentially focus on controllable features of such events. Across two studies, Australian 4-9-year-olds (N = 336, 168 females; data collected…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Decision Making, Emotional Response
Gaia Scerif; Jelena Sucevic; Hannah Andrews; Emma Blakey; Sylvia U. Gattas; Amy Godfrey; Zachary Hawes; Steven J. Howard; Liberty Kent; Rebecca Merkley; Rosemary O'Connor; Fionnuala O'Reilly; Victoria Simms – npj Science of Learning, 2025
Executive functions (EF) are crucial to regulating learning and are predictors of emerging mathematics. However, interventions that leverage EF to improve mathematics remain poorly understood. 193 four-year-olds (mean age = 3 years; 11 months pre-intervention; 111 female, 69% White) were assessed 5 months apart, with 103 children randomised to an…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Executive Function, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Children
Marie Sophie Hunze; Franziska Freudenberger; Yvonne Gerigk; Peter Ohler; Gerhild Nieding – Journal of Children and Media, 2025
Evidence shows that the first component of media literacy to develop in children is media sign literacy (MSL), an ability that focuses on the understanding and correct use of the signs and symbol systems that organize different media. Previous research has shown that MSL is a significant predictor of learning from media. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Preschool Children, Films, Audio Books
Hyeon-Taek Hong; Seung-Il Song – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Introduction: This review aimed to synthesize and review computerized cognitive rehabilitation studies on children with disabilities to confirm their effectiveness. Methods: In 2021, an electronic search of academic articles was performed using PubMed, CINAHL, Science Direct, and Cochrane databases. Results: First, two experienced researchers…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation, Program Effectiveness, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability