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Jiayi Weng; Huihua He; Yu Xue; Miaomiao Guo; Chunxia Wu – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Pattern creation (PC) is creating a pattern unit based on children's own understanding of the concept of pattern, without being provided with a pattern unit as a reference, and the repetition of this pattern unit to create a complete structure. This study explored the performance and predictors of pattern creation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Public Schools, Pattern Recognition
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Cartwright, Kelly B. – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: Executive function begins to develop in infancy and involves an array of processes, such as attention, inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility, which provide the means by which individuals control their own behavior, work toward goals, and manage complex cognitive processes. Thus, executive function plays a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Early Reading, Neurology, Short Term Memory
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Cuevas, Kimberly; Hubble, Morgan; Bell, Martha Ann – Early Education and Development, 2012
Research Findings: This study examined whether children's executive functions before kindergarten would predict variance in executive functions after kindergarten. We obtained behavioral (working memory task performance), parent-reported (temperament-based inhibitory control), and psychophysiological (working memory-related changes in heart rate…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Personality, Psychophysiology, Parent Attitudes