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Wenbin Jia; Xianyu Deng; Jie Yang; Ran Wang; Xuanyu Sun; Erping Xiao – Early Child Development and Care, 2025
This study examined the effect of embodied action on children's conservation reasoning by comparing performance on four classic Piagetian conservation tasks -- length, mass, liquid, and quantity -- under embodied and non-embodied conditions across four age groups. Unlike traditional conservation tasks, which involve passive observation…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Young Children, Conservation (Concept), Age Differences
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Ine H. van Liempd; Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz; Paul P. M. Leseman – Child Development, 2025
Object exploration is considered a driver of motor, cognitive, and social development. However, little is known about how early childhood education and care settings facilitate object exploration. This study examined if children's exploration of objects during free play was facilitated by the use of particular spatial components (floor, tables,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Object Manipulation