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Executive Function and Reading Comprehension: A Meta-Analytic Review
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Follmer, D. Jake – Educational Psychologist, 2018
This article presents a meta-analytic review of the relation between executive function and reading comprehension. Results (N = 6,673) supported a moderate positive association between executive function and reading comprehension (r = 0.36). Moderator analyses suggested that correlations between executive function and reading comprehension did not…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Meta Analysis, Correlation
Mothers' Attention-Getting Utterances during Shared Book Reading: Links to Low-Income Preschoolers' Verbal Engagement, Visual Attention, and Early Literacy
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Son, Seung-Hee Claire; Tineo, Maria F. – Infant and Child Development, 2016
This study examined associations among low-income mothers' use of attention-getting utterances during shared book reading, preschoolers' verbal engagement and visual attention to reading, and their early literacy skills (N = 51). Mother-child shared book reading sessions were videotaped and coded for each utterance, including attention talk,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Correlation, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children
Toys That Squeak: Toy Type Impacts Quality and Quantity of Parent-Child Interactions
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Miller, Jennifer L.; Lossia, Amanda; Suarez-Rivera, Catalina; Gros-Louis, Julie – First Language, 2017
Given the dependent nature of parent-infant interactions necessary for language development, it is important to understand how context may influence these interactions. This study examines how contextual variables influence communicative, cognitive and social measures of parent-infant interactions. Specifically, how do feedback toys and…
Descriptors: Toys, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition, Infants
Exuberant and Inhibited Children: Person-Centered Profiles and Links to Social Adjustment
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Dollar, Jessica M.; Stifter, Cynthia A.; Buss, Kristin A. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The current study aimed to substantiate and extend our understanding regarding the existence and developmental pathways of 3 distinct temperament profiles--exuberant, inhibited, and average approach--in a sample of 3.5-year-old children (n = 121). The interactions between temperamental styles and specific types of effortful control, inhibitory…
Descriptors: Child Development, Young Children, Interaction, Personality Traits
The Potential for School-Based Interventions That Target Executive Function to Improve Academic Achievement: A Review
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Jacob, Robin; Parkinson, Julia – Review of Educational Research, 2015
This article systematically reviews what is known empirically about the association between executive function and student achievement in both reading and math and critically assesses the evidence for a causal association between the two. Using meta-analytic techniques, the review finds that there is a moderate unconditional association between…
Descriptors: Intervention, Executive Function, Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement
Encoding and Retrieval During Bimanual Rhythmic Coordination
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Shockley, Kevin; Turvey, Michael T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
In 2 experiments, bimanual 1:1 rhythmic coordination was performed concurrently with encoding or retrieval of word lists. Effects of divided attention (DA) on coordination were indexed by changes in mean relative phase and recurrence measures of shared activity between the 2 limbs. Effects of DA on memory were indexed by deficits in recall…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Psychomotor Skills, Recall (Psychology), Memory