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Michaela C. DeBolt; Bess L. Caswell; Matthews George; Kenneth Maleta; Elizabeth L. Prado; Shannon Ross-Sheehy; Christine P. Stewart; Lisa M. Oakes – Child Development, 2025
Research with Western samples has uncovered the rapid development of infants' visual attention. This study evaluated spatial attention in 6- to 9-month-old infants living in rural Malawi (N = 511; n[subscript Boys] = 255, n[subscript Yao] = 427) or suburban California, United States (N = 57, n[subscript Boys] = 29, n[subscript White] = 37) in…
Descriptors: Infants, Spatial Ability, Attention Control, Rural Areas
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Sarah Leckey; Shefali Bhagath; Elliott G. Johnson; Simona Ghetti – Child Development, 2024
Memory decision-making in 26- to 32-month-olds was investigated using visual-paired comparison paradigms, requiring toddlers to select familiar stimuli (Active condition) or view familiar and novel stimuli (Passive condition). In Experiment 1 (N = 108, 54.6% female, 62% White; replication N = 98), toddlers with higher accuracy in the Active…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Development, Memory, Decision Making
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Judith Canner; Jennifer E. Clinkenbeard – Numeracy, 2024
The idea of "threshold concepts" has been used to identify discipline-based concepts that are critical to that academic area. Threshold concepts are often difficult for students to assimilate in a meaningful way but, once done, can be powerful for the learner. In general, threshold concepts are 1) transformative to learner thinking; 2)…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Comparative Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach, Thinking Skills
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Boyoung Kim; Grant Goodall – Second Language Research, 2024
Recent approaches to the "that"-trace phenomenon in English include syntactic analyses based on the principle of Anti-locality and a sentence production analysis based on the Principle of End Weight. These analyses have many similarities, but they differ in their predictions for second language (L2) speakers. In an Anti-locality…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)