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Anstey, Kaarin J.; Ehrenfeld, Lauren; Mortby, Moyra E.; Cherbuin, Nicolas; Peters, Ruth; Kiely, Kim M.; Eramudugolla, Ranmalee; Huque, Md Hamidul – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Understanding gender differences in human cognitive development may contribute to understanding the gender differences in outcomes in cognitive ageing. However, evaluation of this topic has been hindered by a lack of representative, longitudinal data from different aged cohorts measured on the same cognitive tests. Gender differences in cognitive…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability, Adults
Filippi, Roberto; Ceccolini, Andrea; Booth, Elizabeth; Shen, Chen; Thomas, Michael S.C.; Toledano, Mireille B.; Dumontheil, Iroise – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Previous research has shown that cognitive development is sensitive to socio-economic status (SES) and multilinguistic experiences. However, these effects are difficult to disentangle and SES may modulate the effects of multilingualism. The present study used data from a large cohort of pupils who took part in the Study of Cognition, Adolescents…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Adolescents
Maria Alice Baraldi; Filippo Domaneschi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Research investigating pragmatic abilities in healthy aging suggests that both production and comprehension might be compromised; however, it is not clear how pragmatic abilities evolve in late adulthood, as well as when difficulties are more likely to arise. The aim of this study is to investigate the decline of pragmatic skills in aging, and to…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Skills, Ability, Aging (Individuals)
Bakker, Merel; Torbeyns, Joke; Verschaffel, Lieven; De Smedt, Bert – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Children start preschool with large individual differences in their early numerical abilities. Little is known about the importance of heterogeneous patterns that exist within these individual differences. A person-centered analytic approach might be helpful to unravel these patterns and the cognitive and environmental factors that are associated…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Preschool Education
Roberts, Kristin L.; Englund Strait, Julia A.; Decker, Scott L. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2018
Working memory (WM) measures are routinely integrated into comprehensive diagnostic evaluations. However, there is little research regarding the underlying components of WM and their developmental trajectories. The current study examined the developmental trajectories of distinct WM components in a sample of 303 individuals ages 6 through…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability, Verbal Ability, Visual Perception
Chen, Chih-Chia; Ryuh, Yonjoong; Mackey, Kathryn – Physical Educator, 2022
This study investigated the cognitive effect of a unified flag football program in young adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). Twelve participants practiced football drills with their typical peers for 50 min each session, twice a week for 15 weeks. Measures of three aspects of executive functions (e.g., verbal working memory, measured as…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Young Adults, Intellectual Disability, Program Effectiveness
Betts, Joseph Lee; Eggins, Elizabeth; Chandler-Mather, Ned; Shelton, Doug; Till, Haydn; Harnett, Paul; Dawe, Sharon – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2022
Background: The consequences for children born with birth defects and developmental disabilities encompassed by foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) are profound, affecting all areas of social, behavioural and cognitive functioning. Given the strong evidence for a core deficit in executive functioning, underpinned by impaired self-regulation…
Descriptors: Intervention, Executive Function, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Literature Reviews
Wu, Yinbo; Schutte, Anne R. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
A growing body of research has found a relationship between parenting and the development of executive function in young children; however, fewer studies have examined how parenting is related specifically to the development of working memory. Using data from the Family Life Project, this study examined whether attention was a pathway through…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Short Term Memory, Verbal Ability, Cognitive Development
Suppalarkbunlue, Warabud; Chutabhakdikul, Nuanchan; Lertladaluck, Kanda; Moriguchi, Yusuke – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2023
Executive function (EF) is an early cognitive skill that rapidly develops during the preschool years. One of the common EF issues in young children is inhibitory control. This study investigates the impact of music-movement activities on children's inhibitory control. We designed the music-movement training (MMT) program for preschoolers to…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Inhibition, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Jones, Jonathan S.; Adlam, Anna-Lynne R.; Benattayallah, Abdelmalek; Milton, Fraser N. – Child Development, 2022
Working memory training improves children's cognitive performance on untrained tasks; however, little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms. This was investigated in 32 typically developing children aged 10-14 years (19 girls and 13 boys) using a randomized controlled design and multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (Devon, UK;…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Diagnostic Tests
Saar, Virpi; Levänen, Sari; Komulainen, Erkki – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the verbal and nonverbal cognitive profiles of children with specific language impairment (SLI) with problems predominantly in expressive (SLI-E) or receptive (SLI-R) language skills. These diagnostic subgroups have not been compared before in psychological studies. Method: Participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Expressive Language, Receptive Language
Troller-Renfree, Sonya V.; Buzzell, George A.; Fox, Nathan A. – Developmental Science, 2020
Cognitive control develops rapidly over the first decade of life, with one of the dominant changes being a transition from reliance on 'as-needed' control (reactive control) to a more planful, sustained form of control (proactive control). Although the emergence of proactive control is important for mature behavior, we know little about how this…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Change, Cognitive Development, Child Development
Liu, Yan; Odic, Darko; Tang, Xuyan; Ma, Andy; Laricheva, Maria; Chen, Guanyu; Wu, Sirui; Niu, Man; Guo, Yue; Milner-Bolotin, Marina – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
The emerging field of robotics education (RE) is a new and rapidly growing subject area worldwide. It may provide a playful and novel learning environment for children to engage with all aspects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning. The purpose of this research is to examine how robotics learning activities may…
Descriptors: Robotics, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Young Children
Gizzonio, Valentina; Bazzini, Maria Chiara; Marsella, Cosima; Papangelo, Pamela; Rizzolatti, Giacomo; Fabbri-Destro, Maddalena – Child Development, 2022
Cognitive abilities are essential to children's overall growth; thus, the implementation of early and effective training interventions is a major challenge for developmental psychologists and teachers. This study explores whether an intervention simultaneously operating on fluid reasoning (FR), visuospatial, narrative, and motor abilities could…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cognitive Development, Intervention, Logical Thinking
Kim, Matthew H.; Bousselot, Tracy E.; Ahmed, Sammy F. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Executive functions (EF) are domain-general cognitive skills that predict foundational academic skills such as literacy and numeracy. However, less is known about the relation between EFs and science achievement. The nature of this relation might be explained by the theory of mutualism, which states that development is the result of complex and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Science Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Short Term Memory