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Woodruff Carr, Kali; Perszyk, Danielle R.; Norton, Elizabeth S.; Voss, Joel L.; Poeppel, David; Waxman, Sandra R. – Developmental Science, 2021
The power and precision with which humans link language to cognition is unique to our species. By 3-4 months of age, infants have already established this link: simply listening to human language facilitates infants' success in fundamental cognitive processes. Initially, this link to cognition is also engaged by a broader set of acoustic stimuli,…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Brain, Language Processing
Singh, Leher – Child Development Perspectives, 2021
Bilingual environments are more complex than monolingual environments. To adapt to this complexity, bilingual infants may navigate their environment in fundamentally different ways than monolingual infants. Drawing from visual, social, and linguistic processing, in this article, I present evidence to suggest that bilingual and monolingual learners…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Child Development
Prasanna, Aparna; Anakkathil Anil, Malavika; Bajaj, Gagan; Bhat, Jayashree S. – Cogent Education, 2022
Little is explored regarding the modality-specific differences in recall abilities of preschool children. Understanding modality-specific differences in the recall at an early age might give an insight into age-linked trends, which can lay a foundation for later development. The current study used a cross-sectional design to investigate the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Recall (Psychology), Task Analysis, Attention Control
Lecce, Serena; Ronchi, Luca; Del Sette, Paola; Bsichetti, Luca; Bambini, Valentina – Journal of Child Language, 2019
We investigated the association between individual differences in metaphor understanding and Theory of Mind (ToM) in typically developing children. We distinguished between two types of metaphors and created a Physical and Mental Metaphors task, echoing a similar distinction for ToM. Nine-year-olds scored lower than older age-groups in ToM as well…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Processing, Theory of Mind, Figurative Language
Davis, E. Emory; Landau, Barbara – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Perception verbs and mental verbs have significant overlap in their syntax and semantics; both reference mental representations when taking embedded clauses, as in "I see that Maria was here" and "I think that Maria was here." Some have suggested that perception is more accessible for young children than mental states, raising…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Phrase Structure, Perception
White, E. Jayne – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Mikhail Bakhtin is a latecomer to the field of child development. His contributions emphasize the dialogic nature of language as a lived event of becoming for all and de-thrones any monologic truths that might be told otherwise. Dismantling any master theory that might determine the ways children are known (or know-able), Bakhtin offers a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Learning Theories, Personal Autonomy, Dialogs (Language)
Erb, Christopher D. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
Developmental theory has long emphasized the importance of linking perception, cognition, and action. Techniques designed to record the spatial and temporal characteristics of hand movements (i.e., "manual dynamics") present new opportunities to study the nature of these links across development by providing a window into how perceptual,…
Descriptors: Motor Reactions, Children, Measurement Techniques, Adults
Clegg, Jennifer M.; Legare, Cristine H. – Child Development, 2016
Four tasks (N = 191, 3- to 6-year-olds) examined the effect of instrumental versus conventional language cues on children's imitative fidelity of a necklace-making activity, their memory and transmission of the activity, and their perceptions of functional fixedness. Children in the conventional condition imitated with higher fidelity, transmitted…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cues, Task Analysis, Imitation
McMurray, Bob; Danelz, Ani; Rigler, Hannah; Seedorff, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The development of the ability to categorize speech sounds is often viewed as occurring primarily during infancy via perceptual learning mechanisms. However, a number of studies suggest that even after infancy, children's categories become more categorical and well defined through about age 12. We investigated the cognitive changes that may be…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Classification, Child Development, Adolescent Development
Dudley, Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation focuses on when and how children learn about the meanings of the propositional attitude" verbs know" and "think". "Know" and "think" both express belief. But they differ in their veridicality: "think" is non-veridical and can report a false belief; but "know" can only…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Child Development, Verbs
Mahn, Holbrook – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Vygotsky's work is extensive and covers many aspects of the development of children's meaning-making processes in social and cultural contexts. However, his main focus is on the examination of the unification of speaking and thinking processes. His investigation centers on the analysis of the entity created by this unification--an internal…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Context, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing
Grossmann, Tobias – Infancy, 2013
It has long been thought that the prefrontal cortex, as the seat of most higher brain functions, is functionally silent during most of infancy. This review highlights recent work concerned with the precise mapping (localization) of brain activation in human infants, providing evidence that prefrontal cortex exhibits functional activation much…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Infants, Neurological Organization, Spectroscopy
Simner, Julia; Haywood, Sarah L. – Cognition, 2009
For lexical-gustatory synaesthetes, words trigger automatic, associated food sensations (e.g., for JB, the word "slope" tastes of over-ripe melon). Our study tests two claims about this unusual condition: that synaesthetic tastes are associated with abstract levels of word representation (concepts/lemmas), and that the first tastes to crystallise…
Descriptors: Spelling, Stimuli, Word Recognition, Child Development
Arnold, Jennifer E.; Bennetto, Loisa; Diehl, Joshua J. – Cognition, 2009
We examine the referential choices (pronouns/zeros vs. names/descriptions) made during a narrative by high-functioning children and adolescents with autism and a well-matched typically developing control group. The process of choosing appropriate referring expressions has been proposed to depend on two areas of cognitive functioning: (a) judging…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Autism, Memory, Interpersonal Communication
Jarrold, Christopher; Thorn, Annabel S. C.; Stephens, Emma – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
This study examined the correlates of new word learning in a sample of 64 typically developing children between 5 and 8 years of age and a group of 22 teenagers and young adults with Down syndrome. Verbal short-term memory and phonological awareness skills were assessed to determine whether learning new words involved accurately representing…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Down Syndrome, Young Adults, Short Term Memory
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