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Wang, Jie; Wu, Ka Chun; Mo, Jianhong; Wong, Wai Leung; Siu, Tik Sze Carrey; McBride, Catherine; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Wong, Patrick C. M.; Maurer, Urs – Developmental Science, 2021
A form-preparation task in the language production field was adopted to examine output phonological representations in Chinese dyslexia and their susceptibility to training. Forty-one Chinese children with dyslexia (7-11 years old) and 36 chronological age controls completed this task. The controls demonstrated a marginally significant syllable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Dyslexia, Chinese
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Kalish, Charles W.; Zhu, XiaoJin; Rogers, Timothy T. – Developmental Science, 2015
Psychological intuitions about natural category structure do not always correspond to the true structure of the world. The current study explores young children's responses to conflict between intuitive structure and authoritative feedback using a semi-supervised learning (Zhu et al., 2007) paradigm. In three experiments, 160 children between the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Child Development, Young Children, Intuition
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Defeyter, Margaret Anne; Avons, S. E.; German, Tamsin C. – Developmental Science, 2007
Research suggests that while information about design is a central feature of older children's artifact representations it may be less important in the artifact representations of younger children. Three experiments explore the pattern of responses that 5- and 7-year-old children generate when asked to produce multiple uses for familiar…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Developmental Psychology, Child Psychology
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Troseth, Georgene L.; Pickard, Megan E. Bloom; Deloache, Judy S. – Developmental Science, 2007
Using a symbolic object such as a model as a source of information about something else requires some appreciation of the relation between the symbol and what it represents. Representational insight has been proposed as essential to success in a symbolic retrieval task in which children must use information from a hiding event in a scale model to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Models, Knowledge Representation, Schematic Studies