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The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing
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Tal Ness; Valerie J. Langlois; Albert E. Kim; Jared M. Novick – Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2025
Understanding language requires readers and listeners to cull meaning from fast-unfolding messages that often contain conflicting cues pointing to incompatible ways of interpreting the input (e.g., "The cat was chased by the mouse"). This article reviews mounting evidence from multiple methods demonstrating that cognitive control plays…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Cues
Maternal Language and Child Vocabulary Mediate Relations between Socioeconomic Status and Executive Function during Early Childhood
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M. Paula Daneri; Clancy Blair; Laura J. Kuhn – Grantee Submission, 2019
This article examined longitudinal relations among socioeconomic risk, maternal language input, child vocabulary, and child executive function in a large sample (N =1,009) recruited for a prospective longitudinal study. Two measures of maternal language input derived from a parent- child picture book task, vocabulary diversity and language…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Socioeconomic Status, Risk, Mothers
Maternal Language and Child Vocabulary Mediate Relations between Socioeconomic Status and Executive Function during Early Childhood
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M. Paula Daneri; Clancy Blair; Laura J. Kuhn; Lynne Vernon-Feagans; Mark Greenberg; Martha Cox; Peg Burchinal; Michael Willoughby; Patricia Garrett-Peters; Roger Mills-Koonce – Child Development, 2019
This article examined longitudinal relations among socioeconomic risk, maternal language input, child vocabulary, and child executive function (EF) in a large sample (N = 1,009) recruited for a prospective longitudinal study. Two measures of maternal language input derived from a parent-child picture book task, vocabulary diversity (VOCD), and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Socioeconomic Status, Risk, Mothers
How Socioeconomic Status, Executive Functioning and Verbal Interactions Contribute to Early Academic Achievement in Chinese Children
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Chung, Kevin K. H.; Liu, Hongyun; McBride, Catherine; Wong, Anita M. -Y.; Lo, Jason C. M. – Educational Psychology, 2017
The present study investigated the relative importance of executive functioning, parent-child verbal interactions, phonological awareness and visual skills on reading and mathematics for Chinese children from low-versus middle-socio economic status (SES) backgrounds. A total of 199 kindergarten children were assessed on executive functioning,…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, Executive Function, Path Analysis