The relationship between trait anxiety and memory functioning in young children was investigated. Two studies were conducted, using tasks tapping verbal and visual-spatial short-term memory (Study 1) and working memory (Study 2) in preschoolers. On the verbal storage tasks, there was a detrimental effect of anxiety on processing efficiency…

Theory suggests that the vision-for-perception and vision-for-action processing streams operate under very different temporal constraints (Glover, 2004; Goodale, Jackobson, & Keillor, 1994; Graham, Bradshaw, & Davis, 1998; Hu, Eagleson, & Goodale, 1999). With the present study, children and young adults were asked to estimate how far a cued target…

Bengali, English, and Hindi-speaking children five to nine years old were asked to place an object in front of or behind objects with or without obvious fronts. All children responded on the basis of an inherent object cue when a fronted object was used. When a nonfronted object was used, all children treated it as a fronted object. (Author/MP)

Two experiments examined the question of whether blindfolded young children and congenitally blind children show mental practice effects for blind movements that cross the body midline. Results suggested that young children with sight can show mental practice effects in the absence of visual cues. (GLR)

From a developmental point of view, examines whether children and adults confuse time and distance when they traverse a specified distance in a particular period of time. (RH)