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Kominsky, Jonathan F.; Gerstenberg, Tobias; Pelz, Madeline; Sheskin, Mark; Singmann, Henrik; Schulz, Laura; Keil, Frank C. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Young children often struggle to answer the question "what would have happened?" particularly in cases where the adult-like "correct" answer has the same outcome as the event that actually occurred. Previous work has assumed that children fail because they cannot engage in accurate counterfactual simulations. Children have…
Descriptors: Simulation, Children, Age Differences, Child Development
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Kim, Dan; Opfer, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Kim and Opfer (2017) found that number-line estimates increased approximately logarithmically with number when an upper bound (e.g., 100 or 1000) was explicitly marked (bounded condition) and when no upper bound was marked (unbounded condition). Using procedural suggestions from Cohen and Ray (2020), we examined whether this logarithmicity might…
Descriptors: Computation, Cognitive Development, Numbers, Cognitive Processes
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Caza, Julian S.; O'Brien, Bronwyn M.; Cassidy, Kathleen S.; Ziani-Bey, Hana A.; Atance, Cristina M. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Future-oriented thought is ubiquitous in humans but challenging to study in children. Adults not only think about the future but can also represent a future state of the world that differs from the present. However, behavioral tasks to assess the development of future thought have not traditionally required children to do so as most can be solved…
Descriptors: Young Children, Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries, Age Differences
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Goulding, Brandon W.; Atance, Cristina M.; Friedman, Ori – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The ability to anticipate the future improves significantly across the preschool years. Whereas 5-year-olds understand that they will prefer adult items in the future, 3-year-olds indicate they will continue to prefer child items. We explore these age-related changes in future-oriented cognition by comparing children's inferences about their…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cognitive Processes, Time Perspective, Cognitive Development
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Blanco, Nathaniel J.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Previous research has shown that when learning categories, adults and young children allocate attention differently. Adults tend to attend selectively, focusing primarily on the most relevant information, whereas young children tend to distribute their attention broadly. Although selective attention is useful in many situations, it also has costs.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adults, Attention, Classification
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Gillmeister, Helge; Stets, Manuela; Grigorova, Milla; Rigato, Silvia – Developmental Psychology, 2019
There is general consensus that the representation of the human face becomes functionally specialized within the first few months of an infant's life. The literature is divided, however, on the question whether the specialized representation of the remainder of the human body form follows a similarly rapid trajectory or emerges more slowly and in…
Descriptors: Human Body, Adults, Infants, Cognitive Development
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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
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Roark, Casey L.; Lescht, Erica; Hampton Wray, Amanda; Chandrasekaran, Bharath – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Categories are fundamental to everyday life and the ability to learn new categories is relevant across the lifespan. Categories are ubiquitous across modalities, supporting complex processes such as object recognition and speech perception. Prior work has proposed that different categories may engage learning systems with unique developmental…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Adults, Learning Modalities
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O'Leary, Allison P.; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
It is often argued that metacognition includes 2 components: monitoring and control. However, it is unclear whether these components can operate independently, or whether they always operate as part of a hierarchy. The current study attempts to address this issue. In Experiment 1 (N = 90), age-related differences were assessed to examine the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Age Differences, Individual Development, Young Children
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Vasilyeva, Nadya; Gopnik, Alison; Lombrozo, Tania – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Representations of social categories help us make sense of the social world, supporting predictions and explanations about groups and individuals. In an experiment with 156 participants, we explore whether children and adults are able to understand category-property associations (such as the association between "girls" and "liking…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Classification, Children, Adults
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Loucks, Jeff; Price, Heather L. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Executing actions in a specific order is a critical component of many action sequences that children must acquire, the majority of which are learned through observation and imitation of others. Although a wealth of evidence indicates that children can process and represent temporal order in memory, relatively little is known about the development…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Processes, Young Children, Imitation
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Musculus, Lisa; Ruggeri, Azzurra; Raab, Markus; Lobinger, Babett – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Little is known about how children generate options for taking action in familiar situations or how they select which action option to actually perform. In this article, we explore the interplay between option generation and selection from a developmental perspective using sports as a testbed. In a longitudinal design with four measurement waves,…
Descriptors: Children, Early Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development
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Broadbent, H. J.; Osborne, T.; Rea, M.; Peng, A.; Mareschal, D.; Kirkham, N. Z. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Multisensory information has been shown to facilitate learning (Bahrick & Lickliter, 2000; Broadbent, White, Mareschal, & Kirkham, 2017; Jordan & Baker, 2011; Shams & Seitz, 2008). However, although research has examined the modulating effect of unisensory and multisensory distractors on multisensory processing, the extent to which…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Sensory Integration
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Weiss, Michael W.; Schellenberg, E. Glenn; Trehub, Sandra E.; Dawber, Emily J. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Music cognition is typically studied with instrumental stimuli. Adults remember melodies better, however, when they are presented in a biologically significant timbre (i.e., the human voice) than in various instrumental timbres (Weiss, Trehub, & Schellenberg, 2012). We examined the impact of vocal timbre on children's processing of melodies.…
Descriptors: Singing, Music, Children, Cognitive Processes
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Kim, Dan; Opfer, John E. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Representations of numerical value have been assessed by using bounded (e.g., 0-1,000) and unbounded (e.g., 0-?) number-line tasks, with considerable debate regarding whether 1 or both tasks elicit unique cognitive strategies (e.g., addition or subtraction) and require unique cognitive models. To test this, we examined how well a mixed log-linear…
Descriptors: Computation, Numbers, Children, Cognitive Development
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