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Lange-Küttner, Christiane; Collins, Chenelle L.; Ahmed, Rahima K.; Fisher, Lauren E. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The relation between perceptual and conceptual knowledge is a longstanding research question in developmental psychology. Here we tested children's dependence on figurative information with a reaction time/accuracy task. A sample of 151 children from 5 to 10 years were assessed from two multicultural and multiracial schools in the London (UK)…
Descriptors: Children, Memory, Visual Perception, Reaction Time
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Jafarlou, Fatemeh; Jarollahi, Farnoush; Ahadi, Mohsen; Sadeghi-Firoozabadi, Vahid – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Introduction: Oculomotor disorders have been reported in some of the dyslexic children. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effects of oculomotor rehabilitation on the cognitive performance of dyslexic children. Methods: Subjects were 50 dyslexic children between 8 and 12 years old. Those with oculomotor abnormalities (n = 30) were…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Eye Movements, Psychomotor Skills, Rehabilitation
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Fantasia, Valentina; Markant, Douglas B.; Valeri, Giovanni; Perri, Nicholas; Ruggeri, Azzurra – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Previous research with typically developing children and adults shows that active control of the learning experience leads to enhanced episodic memory, as compared with conditions lacking this control. The present study investigates whether similar advantages can be found in children with autism spectrum disorder. In this study, 6-12-year-old…
Descriptors: Memory, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Bal, Vanessa H.; Wilkinson, Ellen; Fok, Megan – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
It is essential to recognize the strengths and talents of autistic individuals. Previous studies of extraordinary talents (i.e. skills that stand out relative to the general population) have combined individuals with different skills (e.g. calendrical calculation, drawing) into one group. There has been limited investigation of talents in specific…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Individual Characteristics, Talent
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Baram, Tallie Z.; Donato, Flavio; Holmes, Gregory L. – Learning & Memory, 2019
Spatial memory, the aspect of memory involving encoding and retrieval of information regarding one's environment and spatial orientation, is a complex biological function incorporating multiple neuronal networks. Hippocampus-dependent spatial memory is not innate and emerges during development in both humans and rodents. In children,…
Descriptors: Memory, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Neurological Organization
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Farran, E. K.; Formby, S.; Daniyal, F.; Holmes, T.; Van Herwegen, J. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2016
Background: Successful navigation is crucial to everyday life. Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) have impaired spatial abilities. This includes a deficit in spatial navigation abilities such as learning the route from A to B. To-date, to determine whether participants attend to landmarks when learning a route, landmark recall tasks have been…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Spatial Ability, Navigation
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Szubielska, Magdalena; Niestorowicz, Ewa; Marek, Boguslaw – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2019
Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine whether individuals with congenital blindness make more recognizable drawings of known objects that are furniture sized (table, man, tree) rather than hand sized (egg, coconut, banana; Hypothesis 1). We also investigated whether knowledge that the tactile drawings had been produced by people who…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Congenital Impairments, Blindness, Freehand Drawing
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So, Wing-Chee; Lui, Ming; Wong, Tze-Kiu; Sit, Long-Tin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: The current study examined whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), in comparison with typically developing children, perceive and produce gestures to identify nonpresent objects (i.e., referent-identifying gestures), which is crucial for communicating ideas in a discourse. Method: An experimenter described the uses of…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Children, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
McGregor, Karla K.; Alper, Rebecca M. – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2015
Clinical Question: Are people with sleep disorders at higher risk for language learning deficits than healthy sleepers? Method: Scoping Review. Study Sources: PubMed, Google Scholar, Trip Database, ClinicalTrials.gov. Search Terms: sleep disorders AND language AND learning; sleep disorders language learning--deprivation--epilepsy; sleep disorders…
Descriptors: Sleep, At Risk Persons, Language Impairments, Literature Reviews
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Price, C. Aaron; Lee, H.-S.; Malatesta, K. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2014
Stereoscopic technology (3D) is rapidly becoming ubiquitous across research, entertainment and informal educational settings. Children of today may grow up never knowing a time when movies, television and video games were not available stereoscopically. Despite this rapid expansion, the field's understanding of the impact of stereoscopic…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Science Education, Informal Education, Children
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Vukovic, Rose K.; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Geary, David C.; Jordan, Nancy C.; Gersten, Russell; Siegler, Robert S. – Child Development, 2014
Longitudinal associations of domain-general and numerical competencies with individual differences in children's understanding of fractions were investigated. Children (n = 163) were assessed at 6 years of age on domain-general (nonverbal reasoning, language, attentive behavior, executive control, visual-spatial memory) and numerical (number…
Descriptors: Children, Individual Differences, Mathematics, Arithmetic
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Zorrilla-Silvestre, Lorena; Presentación-Herrero, María Jesús; Gil-Gómez, Jesús – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2016
Introduction: This study explored the variables of executive functioning (EF) that permitted the evaluation of EF both at home and at school. The objective was to compare the results of the evaluations of these functions in children aged 5 to 6 years, and see to what extent these variables predicted mathematics performance best. Method: Sixty-six…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Neuropsychology, Ecology, Predictor Variables
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Diezmann, Carmel M.; Lowrie, Tom – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2012
Learning to think spatially in mathematics involves developing proficiency with graphics. This paper reports on 2 investigations of spatial thinking and graphics. The first investigation explored the importance of graphics as 1 of 3 communication systems (i.e. text, symbols, graphics) used to provide information in numeracy test items. The results…
Descriptors: Memory, Spatial Ability, Test Items, Numeracy
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Korallo, Liliya; Foreman, Nigel; Boyd-Davis, Stephen; Moar, Magnus; Coulson, Mark – Computers & Education, 2012
Studies examined the potential use of VEs in teaching historical chronology to 127 children of primary school age (8-9 years). The use of passive fly-through VEs had been found, in an earlier study, to be disadvantageous with this age group when tested for their subsequent ability to place displayed sequential events in correct chronological…
Descriptors: Age, Familiarity, Short Term Memory, Foreign Countries
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Groen, Margriet A.; Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Badcock, Nicholas A.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Neuropsychologia, 2011
In the majority of people, functional differences are observed between the two cerebral hemispheres: language production is typically subserved by the left hemisphere and visuospatial skills by the right hemisphere. The development of this division of labour is not well understood and lateralisation of visuospatial function has received little…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Spatial Ability, Memory, Children
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