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Inhibitory Control, Dyadic Social Behavior, and Mental Health Difficulties in Preschoolers
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Hassan, Raha; Schmidt, Louis A. – Child Development, 2022
Although inhibitory control is typically associated with positive outcomes, several theoretical frameworks suggest that too little "and" too much inhibitory control may be problematic. Using a longitudinal, latent variable approach, we examined whether a multi-method index of inhibitory control at Time 1 (N = 105, 52 girls, M[subscript…
Descriptors: Self Control, Social Behavior, Mental Health, Mental Disorders
Individual Differences in Working Memory Predict the Efficacy of Experimenter-Manipulated Gestures in First-Grade Children
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Eliza L. Congdon – Child Development, 2024
Why is instructional gesture ineffective in some contexts? And what is it about learners that predicts whether they will learn from gestures? This between-subjects linear measurement training study compares gesture instruction to two controls--operant action and transient action--in a diverse sample of first-grade students (N = 174, M[subscript…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Short Term Memory, Nonverbal Communication, Grade 1
Children Boost Their Cognitive Performance with a Novel Offloading Technique
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Armitage, Kristy L.; Redshaw, Jonathan – Child Development, 2022
Ninety-seven children aged 4-11 (49 males, 48 females, mostly White) were given the opportunity to improve their problem-solving performance by devising and implementing a novel cognitive offloading strategy. Across two phases, they searched for hidden rewards using maps that were either aligned or misaligned with the search space. In the second…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving
Need for Approval and Antisocial Behavior Moderate the Effect of Socioemotional Cues on Adolescent Girls' Cognitive Control
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Modi, Haina H.; Davis, Megan M.; Troop Gordon, Wendy; Telzer, Eva H.; Rudolph, Karen D. – Child Development, 2023
To examine whether need for approval (NFA) and antisocial behavior (ASB) moderate the effects of socioemotional stimuli on cognitive control, 88 girls (M[subscript age] = 16.31 years; SD = 0.84; 65.9% White) completed a socioemotional Go/No-go and questionnaires. At high approach NFA, girls responded more slowly during appetitive than control (b =…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Self Concept
EEG N1 Specialization to Print in Chinese Primary School Students: Developmental Trajectories, Longitudinal Changes, and Individual Differences
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Shuting Huo; Jason Chor Ming Lo; Kelvin Fai Hong Lui; Urs Maurer; Catherine Mcbride – Child Development, 2025
Neural specialization for print can be indexed by the left-lateralized N1 response as a tuning gradient to visual words, indicated by sensitivity (character vs. visual control) and selectivity (character vs. character-like stimuli). Forty-five Chinese children (20 boys) were recorded with EEG twice with a 2-year interval during a character…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Brain, Specialization