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Chua, Yu Wei; Lu, Szu-Ching; Anzulewicz, Anna; Sobota, Krzystof; Tachtatzis, Christos; Andonovic, Ivan; Rowe, Philip; Delafield-Butt, Jonathan – Developmental Science, 2022
Movement is prospective. It structures self-generated engagement with objects and social partners and is fundamental to children's learning and development. In autistic children, previous reports of differences in movement kinematics compared to neurotypical peers suggest that its prospective organisation might be disrupted. Here, we employed a…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Motion, Handheld Devices
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Bohn, Manuel; Le, Khuyen Nha; Peloquin, Benjamin; Köymen, Bahar; Frank, Michael C. – Developmental Science, 2021
In conversation, individual utterances are almost always ambiguous, with this ambiguity resolved by context and discourse history ("common ground"). One important cue for disambiguation is the topic under discussion with a particular partner (e.g., "want to pick?" means something different in a conversation with a bluegrass…
Descriptors: Cues, Ambiguity (Context), Preschool Children, Interpersonal Communication
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Ramani, Geetha B.; Daubert, Emily N.; Lin, Grace C.; Kamarsu, Snigdha; Wodzinski, Alaina; Jaeggi, Susanne M. – Developmental Science, 2020
Sources that contribute to variation in mathematical achievement include both numerical knowledge and general underlying cognitive processing abilities. The current study tested the benefits of tablet-based training games that targeted each of these areas for improving the mathematical knowledge of kindergarten-age children. We hypothesized that…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematics Education, Number Concepts, Short Term Memory