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Direct linkLily Dicken; Thomas Suddendorf; Adam Bulley; Muireann Irish; Jonathan Redshaw – Child Development, 2025
Australian children aged 6-9 years (N = 120, 71 females; data collected in 2021-2022) were tasked with remembering the locations of 1, 3, 5, and 7 targets hidden under 25 cups on different trials. In the critical test phase, children were provided with a limited number of tokens to allocate across trials, which they could use to mark target…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Task Analysis
Catarina Vales; Zach Branson; Anna V. Fisher – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Cognitive tasks are seldom evaluated on their ability to provide valid and reliable measurements of the construct they intend to measure. This scarcity of psychometric evaluations makes it challenging to evaluate replications of experimental effects and to relate performance in cognitive tasks to other constructs of interest. In developmental…
Descriptors: Child Development, Psychometrics, Semantics, Preschool Children
S. Bahar Sener; Ariel Starr – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
Although we cannot see or touch time, across many cultures, we use spatial representations to think about this abstract concept. Spatial representations of time are thought to support temporal concepts that might otherwise be difficult to represent and reason about, such as the temporal component of episodic memory. One common form of spatially…
Descriptors: Memory, Cultural Pluralism, Spatial Ability, Time
Stefan Vermeent; Ethan S. Young; Meriah L. DeJoseph; Anna-Lena Schubert; Willem E. Frankenhuis – Developmental Science, 2024
Childhood adversity can lead to cognitive deficits or enhancements, depending on many factors. Though progress has been made, two challenges prevent us from integrating and better understanding these patterns. First, studies commonly use and interpret raw performance differences, such as response times, which conflate different stages of cognitive…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Trauma, Cognitive Processes, Children
Apoorva Shivaram – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education is essential to the economic growth, health, and progress of the modern world. One cognitive ability that underpins thinking and learning in STEM, as well as other disciplines, is relational ability. This ability to spot common relations shared by different objects, events, ideas, or…
Descriptors: Infants, Young Children, STEM Education, Thinking Skills
Choi, Youjung; Luo, Yuyan; Baillargeon, Renée – Child Development, 2022
Is early reasoning about an agent's knowledge best characterized by a mentalistic stance, a teleological stance, or both? In this research, 5-month-old infants (N = 64, 50% female, 83% White) saw a novel eyeless agent consistently approach object-A as opposed to object-B. Although infants could always see both objects, a screen separated object-B…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Preferences
Kamber, Ege; Mazachowsky, Tessa R.; Mahy, Caitlin E. V. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
The development of children's future-oriented cognition has become a popular research topic in the past two decades. Much of this research focuses on the preschool and middle childhood years, but very little is known about the future-oriented cognitive abilities of toddlers and young preschoolers. The present study investigated the emergence of…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Parents, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
Rachel L. Eggleston; Rebecca A. Marks; Xin Sun; Chi-Lin Yu; Kehui Zhang; Nia Nickerson; Xiaosu Hu; Valeria Caruso; Ioulia Kovelman – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: We examined the neurocognitive bases of lexical morphology in children of varied reading abilities to understand the role of meaning-based skills in learning to read with dyslexia. Method: Children completed auditory morphological and phonological awareness tasks during functional near-infrared spectroscopy neuroimaging. We first examined…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Lexicology, Morphology (Languages), Risk
Nagore Martinez-Merino; Markel Rico-González – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
The aim of this review was to systematically summarize the literature about physical education (PE) programs and their effects on preschool children's physical activity levels and motor, cognitive, and social competences. A systematic search of relevant articles was carried out using four electronic databases up until February 16, 2022. The main…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preschool Children, Physical Activities, Cognitive Processes
East, Patricia; Doom, Jenalee R.; Blanco, Estela; Burrows, Raquel; Lozoff, Betsy; Gahagan, Sheila – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study examines the extent to which iron deficiency in infancy contributes to adverse neurocognitive and educational outcomes in young adulthood directly and indirectly, through its influence on verbal cognition and attention problems in childhood. Young adults (N = 1,000, M age = 21.3 years, 52% female; of Spanish or indigenous descent) from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Health, Nutrition
Dutra, Natália B.; Chen, Lydia; Anum, Adote; Burger, Oskar; Davis, Helen E.; Dzokoto, Vivian A.; Fong, Frankie T. K.; Ghelardi, Sabrina; Mendez, Kimberly; Messer, Emily J. E.; Newhouse, Morgan; Nielsen, Mark G.; Ramos, Karlos; Rawlings, Bruce; dos Santos, Renan A. C.; Silveira, Lara G. S.; Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.; Legare, Cristine H. – Developmental Science, 2022
Self-regulation is a widely studied construct, generally assumed to be cognitively supported by executive functions (EFs). There is a lack of clarity and consensus over the roles of specific components of EFs in self-regulation. The current study examines the relations between performance on (a) a self-regulation task (Heads, Toes, Knees Shoulders…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Self Control, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception
Savopoulos, Priscilla; Brown, Stephanie; Anderson, Peter J.; Gartland, Deirdre; Bryant, Christina; Giallo, Rebecca – Child Development, 2022
The cognitive functioning of children who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) has received less attention than their emotional-behavioral outcomes. Drawing upon data from 615 (48.4% female) 10-year-old Australian-born children and their mothers (9.6% of mothers born in non-English speaking countries) participating in a community-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes, Children, Family Violence
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
Download full textDanilov, Igor Val; Mihailova, Sandra – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
This theoretical article aims to create a conceptual framework for future research on digital methods for assessing cognition in children through estimating shared intentionality, different from assessing through behavioral markers. It shows the new assessing paradigm based directly on the evaluation of parent-child interaction exchanges…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Cognitive Ability, Children, Parent Child Relationship
Cheryl Jialing Ho; Elisabeth Duursma; Jane S. Herbert – Infant and Child Development, 2023
This study examined verbal and non-verbal features of mother-infant shared book reading in Australia during the first year of life and explored the relationship between these features and infant cognition. Mother-infant dyads were observed in this cross-sectional study reading an unfamiliar book in a laboratory setting when infants were aged 6…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Mothers, Books
