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Direct linkMartina Arioli; Valentina Silvestri; Angelo Petrelli; Daniela Morniroli; Maria Lorella Giannì; Hermann Bulf; Viola Macchi Cassia – Child Development, 2025
Four-month-old infants extract ordinal information in number-based and size-based visual sequences, provided that magnitude changes involve increasing relations. Here the ontogenetic origins of ordinal processing were investigated between 2018 and 2022 by testing newborns' discrimination of reversal in numerosity (Experiment 1, N = 22 White, 11…
Descriptors: Infants, Neonates, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development
Alison E. Calentino; Nathan M. Hager; Elise M. Adams; Aline K. Szenczy; Lindsay Dickey; Autumn Kujawa; Greg Hajcak; Brady D. Nelson; Daniel N. Klein – Child Development, 2025
The late positive potential (LPP), an event-related potential reflecting affective processing, may exhibit developmental shifts in magnitude and scalp location. In the present longitudinal study, 501 youth (47.3% female; 89.4% White; 12.0% Hispanic) completed the emotion interrupt task to elicit the LPP to neutral, positive, and negative images at…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Children, Adolescents
Piantadosi, Steven T. – Child Development, 2023
The study of how children learn numbers has yielded one of the most productive research programs in cognitive development, spanning empirical and computational methods, as well as nativist and empiricist philosophies. This paper provides a tutorial on how to think computationally about learning models in a domain like number, where learners take…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Child Development, Computation, Models
Alicia K. Jones; Shalini Gautam; Jonathan Redshaw – Child Development, 2025
Counterfactual emotions such as regret may aid future decision-making by encouraging people to focus on controllable features of personal past events. However, it remains unclear when children begin to preferentially focus on controllable features of such events. Across two studies, Australian 4-9-year-olds (N = 336, 168 females; data collected…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Decision Making, Emotional Response
Dashiell D. Sacks; Viviane Valdes; Carol L. Wilkinson; April R. Levin; Charles A. Nelson; Michelle Bosquet Enlow – Child Development, 2025
Aperiodic electroencephalography (EEG) activity is hypothesized to index biological mechanisms that underpin brain functioning. This longitudinal study characterized the developmental trajectories of the aperiodic slope (i.e., aperiodic exponent) and offset from infancy to 7 years of age in a US community sample (N = 391, 46.5% female,…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Child Development
Rosie Aboody; Julianna Lu; Stephanie Denison; Julian Jara-Ettinger – Child Development, 2025
When determining what others know, we intuitively consider not only whether they succeed but also their probability of success in the absence of knowledge (e.g., random guessing). Across three experiments (n = 240 North American 4-6-year-olds, data collected between 2020-2023) we find that 4-year-olds understand that tasks with a lower probability…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Age Differences, Childrens Attitudes, Abstract Reasoning
Qianqian Wan; Olivera Savic; Mengcun Gao; Robby Ralston; Allison P. O'Leary; Vladimir M. Sloutsky – Child Development, 2025
This longitudinal study investigates metacognitive development in children aged four to six (N = 148; 74 girls; 106 White, 21 multiracial, 17 Black, 3 Asian, 1 Latino; collected in 2017-2019) compared to adults (N = 26, 13 women; collected in 2022). We assessed metacognitive monitoring and control using experimenter-elicited and self-generated…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Preschool Children
Eileen F. Sullivan; Ran Wei; Shahria Kakon; Talat Shama; Fahmida Tofail; William A. Petri; Rashidul Haque; Charles A. Nelson III – Child Development, 2025
Identifying the neural processes that underlie the association between children's early adverse experiences and cognitive development could inform more effective intervention strategies. The goal of the current study (data collected 2015-2021) was to examine relations among early experiences at 6 months, electroencephalography (EEG) theta power at…
Descriptors: Trauma, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Intervention
Tess Allegra Forest; Layla Bradford; Lorna Ginnell; Maroussia Berger; Donna Herr; Emmie Mbale; Kavindya Dalawella; Chloë A. Jacobs; Chikondi Mchazime; Celia D'Amato; Zamazimba Madi; Pious Clifford Mkaka; Claudia Espinoza-Heredia; Tembeka Mhlakwaphalwa; Vukiwe Ngoma; Monique Gilmore; Marlie Miles; Jinge Ren; Nwabisa Mlandu; Reese Samuels; Michal R. Zieff; Melissa Gladstone; Kirsten A. Donald; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2025
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather information for learning. Here, caregiver-infant dyads (N = 222, 2-6-months-old, all female caregivers; data collected 2022-2023) in South Africa and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Infants, Eye Movements
McGuckian, Thomas B.; Wilson, Peter H.; Johnston, Rich D.; Rahimi-Golkhandan, Shahin; Piek, Jan; Green, Dido; Rogers, Jeffrey M.; Maruff, Paul; Steenbergen, Bert; Ruddock, Scott – Child Development, 2023
This longitudinal study modeled children's complex executive function (EF) development using the Groton Maze Learning Task (GMLT). Using a cohort-sequential design, 147 children (61 males, 5.5-11 years) were recruited from six multicultural primary schools in Melbourne and Perth, Australia. Race/ethnicity data were not available. Children were…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Executive Function, Elementary School Students
Bhat, Ajaz A.; Samuelson, Larissa K.; Spencer, John P. – Child Development, 2023
The interaction of visual exploration and auditory processing is central to early cognitive development, supporting object discrimination, categorization, and word learning. Research has shown visual-auditory interactions to be complex, created from multiple processes and changing over multiple timescales. To better understand these interactions,…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary Development, Attention, Cognitive Development
Rah, Yu Jin; Kim, Jiyun; Lee, Sang Ah – Child Development, 2022
Children's spatial mapping starts out particularly sensitive to 3D wall-like boundaries and develops over early childhood to flexibly include other boundary types. This study investigated whether spatial boundaries influence children's episodic memory, as in adults, and whether this effect is modulated by boundary type. Eighty-one Korean children…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Memory, Recall (Psychology), Young Children
Iris Menu; Lanxin Ji; Tanya Bhatia; Mark Duffy; Cassandra L. Hendrix; Moriah E. Thomason – Child Development, 2025
Preterm birth poses a major public health challenge, with significant and heterogeneous developmental impacts. Latent profile analysis was applied to the National Institutes of Health Toolbox performance of 1891 healthy prematurely born children from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study (970 boys, 921 girls; 10.00 ± 0.61 years;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Premature Infants, Cognitive Development, Scores
Marigen Narea; Pamela Soto-Ramírez; Alejandra Abufhele – Child Development, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the significance of early childhood education and care (ECEC) for children's development. We investigated the impact of attendance at ECEC programs following a closure period due to the pandemic. We used linear regression with a lagged dependent variable to examine assessments of children's cognitive and receptive…
Descriptors: Child Care, Attendance, COVID-19, Pandemics
Delagneau, Garance; Twilhaar, E. Sabrina; Testa, Renee; van Veen, Sarit; Anderson, Peter – Child Development, 2023
This meta-analysis examined the relationship between prenatal maternal stress and/or anxiety and the outcomes of children aged 3 months to 9 years. Of the 8754 studies published before June 2021 that were synthesized, 17 conducted in Western countries were included in the meta-analysis (N[subscript total] = 23,307; M[subscript males] 54%;…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Anxiety, Stress Variables, Cognitive Ability
