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Holochwost, Steven J.; Winebrake, Deaven; Brown, Eleanor D.; Happaney, Keith R.; Wagner, Nicholas J.; Mills-Koonce, W. Roger – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
The predictive validity of performance on cognitive-behavioral measures of executive function (EF) suggests that these measures index children's underlying capacity for self-regulation. In this paper, we apply ecological systems theory to critically evaluate this assertion. We argue that as typically administered, standard measures of EF do not…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Individual Differences, Measures (Individuals), Predictive Validity
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LeBarton, Eve Sauer; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Raudenbush, Stephen – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
Differences in vocabulary that children bring with them to school can be traced back to the gestures they produced at the age of 1;2, which, in turn, can be traced back to the gestures their parents produced at the same age (Rowe & Goldin-Meadow, 2009a). We ask here whether child gesture can be experimentally increased and, if so, whether the…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Oral Language