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Maria Spinelli; Diane L. Putnick; Prachi E. Shah; Marc H. Bornstein – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Understanding of preterm infant cognitive competences across the first year of life is limited regarding the developmental constructs of continuity, stability, coherence, and predictive validity as well as how they manifest by age and country of origin. This prospective longitudinal study examined and compared mean-level continuity,…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Reliability
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Rose, Susan A.; Feldman, Judith F.; Jankowski, Jeffery J. – Intelligence, 2009
The present report assesses information processing in the toddler years (24 and 36 months), using a cohort of preterms (less than 1750 g) and full-terms initially seen in infancy. The children received a battery of tasks tapping 11 specific abilities from four domains--memory, processing speed, attention, and representational competence. The same…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Intelligence
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Kovas, Yulia; Haworth, Claire M. A.; Dale, Philip S.; Plomin, Robert – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2007
Despite the importance of learning abilities and disabilities in education and child development, little is known about their genetic and environmental origins in the early school years. We report results for English (which includes reading, writing, and speaking), mathematics, and science as well as general cognitive ability in a large and…
Descriptors: Nature Nurture Controversy, Genetics, Environmental Influences, Cognitive Ability