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M. Perapoch Amadó; E. A. M. Phillips; G. Esposito; E. Greenwood; J. Ives; P. Labendzki; K. Lancaster; T. J. Northrop; N. K. Viswanathan; M. Gök; M. J. Peñaherrera; E. J. H. Jones; S. V. Wass – Child Development, 2025
Joint attention (JA) has been found to correlate with many developmental outcomes. However, little is known about how naturalistic JA is established and develops during early infancy. In this study, free-flowing tabletop toy play between infants at 5 and 15 months and their mothers (N = 48 dyads; 65% white) was observed to (1) examine changes in…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Time, Infants
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Sarah C. Creel – Child Development, 2025
How does one assess developmental change when the measures themselves change with development? Most developmental studies of word learning use either looking (infants) or pointing (preschoolers and older). With little empirical evidence of the relationship between the two measures, developmental change is difficult to assess. This paper analyzes…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Accuracy
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Elfriede R. Holstein; Maria Theobald; Leonie S. Weindorf; Garvin Brod – Child Development, 2025
We investigated the role of children's conflict monitoring skills in revising an intuitive scientific theory. Children aged 5 to 9 (N = 177; 53% girls, data collected in Germany from 2019-2023) completed computer-based tasks on water displacement, a concept prone to misconceptions. Children predicted which of two objects would displace more water…
Descriptors: Children, Conflict, Task Analysis, Foreign Countries