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Rollins, Leslie; Riggins, Tracy – Developmental Science, 2018
The ability to mentally re-experience past events improves significantly from childhood to young adulthood; however, the mechanisms underlying this ability remain poorly understood, partially because different tasks are used across the lifespan. This study was designed to address this gap by assessing the development of event-related potential…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Coding, Information Retrieval, Correlation
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Avellaneda, Claudia N.; Dávalos, Eleonora – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2017
This study seeks to explain macrolevel drivers of adolescent fertility rate using a panel data set derived from 17 Latin American countries over a period of 16 years (1997-2012). While many studies of adolescent fertility have focused on individual-level explanations, this study explores whether adolescent fertility rate is correlated to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sex Education, Comprehensive School Health Education, Birth
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Scherf, K. Suzanne; Behrmann, Marlene; Kimchi, Ruth; Luna, Beatriz – Child Development, 2009
The developmental trajectory of perceptual organization in humans is unclear. This study investigated perceptual grouping abilities across a wide age range (8-30 years) using a classic compound letter global/local (GL) task and a more fine-grained microgenetic prime paradigm (MPP) with both few- and many-element hierarchical displays. In the GL…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Adolescents, Young Adults, Age Groups