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Kristen, Susanne; Sodian, Beate; Thoermer, Claudia; Perst, Hannah – Developmental Psychology, 2011
To assess predictive relations between joint attention skills, intention understanding, and mental state vocabulary, 88 children were tested with measures of comprehension of gaze and referential pointing, as well as the production of declarative gestures and the comprehension and production of imperative gestures, at the ages of 7-18 months.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Imitation, Intention, Toddlers
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Kovas, Yulia; Haworth, Claire M. A.; Dale, Philip S.; Plomin, Robert – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2007
Despite the importance of learning abilities and disabilities in education and child development, little is known about their genetic and environmental origins in the early school years. We report results for English (which includes reading, writing, and speaking), mathematics, and science as well as general cognitive ability in a large and…
Descriptors: Nature Nurture Controversy, Genetics, Environmental Influences, Cognitive Ability