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Direct linkDavid M. Sobel; David G. Kamper; Yuyi Taylor; Joo-Hyun Song – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
We investigated the role of distinct inhibitory processes as 4- to 6-year-olds from the Northeastern United States (N = 48, M[subscript age] = 68.27 months, 22 boys, 26 girls; 63% White, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Hispanic, 8% more than one race, with 17% not reporting) and adults evaluated accurate or deceptive information from human or non-human…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Young Children, Adults, Cognitive Processes
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
Kristy L. Armitage; Alicia K. Jones; Jonathan Redshaw – Cognitive Science, 2025
With the rise of wearable technologies, mobile devices and artificial intelligence comes a growing pressure to understand downstream effects of cognitive offloading on children's future thinking and behavior. Here, we explored whether compelling children to use an indiscriminate cognitive offloading strategy affects their subsequent strategy…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Problem Solving, Learning Strategies
Chanjuan Fu; Xiaoxin Hao; Xinyue Shi; Hanxin Qian; Shanyun He; Fengji Geng – npj Science of Learning, 2025
This study investigates the effect of cognitive control strategies on young children's emotional and attentional states during coding learning. We conducted a quasi-experimental study with 46 children aged 5-6 years, dividing them into an experimental group using cognitive control strategies (planning, monitoring, reflecting) and a control group…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Executive Function, Young Children, Attention
Ebru Ger; Paul Ibbotson; Tilbe Göksun – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
This study investigated the role of domain-general cognitive processes, specifically inhibitory control, verbal working memory (WM), and nonverbal reasoning, on children's productive grammar skills, focusing on Turkish past tense (e.g. firçala-DI brush-PAST.3sg) and causative suffix (e.g. firçala-t-TI brush-CAUSE-PAST.3sg), representing the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Morphology (Languages)
Andrew Lynn; John Maule; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2024
Children (N = 103, 4-9 years, 59 females, 84% White, c. 2019) completed visual processing, visual feature integration (color, luminance, motion), and visual search tasks. Contrast sensitivity and feature search improved with age similarly for luminance and color-defined targets. Incidental feature integration improved more with age for…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Age Differences, Light, Color
Antar, Rafi – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2023
The following article is a thorough literature review, discussing the impact of media technology on brain development in the context of magical thinking. This systematic literature review discusses the impact of video gaming on magical thinking in early childhood. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how media technology, especially video…
Descriptors: Video Games, Cognitive Processes, Fantasy, Young Children
Daniel Lovatt – Early Childhood Folio, 2025
The notion of children's working theories is an overarching outcome of Aotearoa New Zealand's early childhood curriculum document "Te Whariki." An ever-growing base of research and literature is available about the working theories children hold and ways that teachers might support working theory development. In this article, I draw on…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Theories, Early Childhood Education
Oksana Ivanova; Larisa Ilinska; Marina Platonova; Dace Markus; Tija Zirina; Diana Ivanova; Agrita Taurina – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2025
The aspects of preschool education curriculum (re)design have recently been emphasized both in various international and national legal documents and in the professional mainstream literature with the aim to support children's holistic development. The maturity and advancement of a child across cognitive, physical, social-emotional, and behavioral…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, World Views, Beliefs
Jaime Balladares; Martín Miranda; Karen Cordova – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
The study evaluated the effects of board games on children in a range of cognitive areas, considering both inclusion (i.e. pre- and post-comparisons, playing style [board games], participants belonging to PreKinder and Kindergarten, and experimental approach) and exclusion criteria (i.e. video games). Nineteen articles were selected using both…
Descriptors: Games, Mathematics Skills, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Wang, Jinjing; Bonawitz, Elizabeth – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
Sometimes we should persist to succeed. But other times it might be wiser to give up on the task at hand and focus our energy on something new. Knowing whether a task is worth the effort potentially requires multiple capacities, including sensitivity to one's own likelihood to succeed on the current problem, the associated costs with continuing to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Rewards
Download full textJaeah Kim; Shashank Singh; Catarina Vales; Emily Keebler; Anna V. Fisher; Erik D. Thiessen – Grantee Submission, 2023
In this paper, we decompose selective sustained attending behavior into components of continuous attention maintenance and attentional transitions and study how each of these components develops in young children. Our results in two experiments suggest that changes in children's ability to return attention to a target locus after distraction…
Descriptors: Young Children, Attention, Child Behavior, Cognitive Processes
Green, Heather L.; Shen, Guannan; Franzen, Rose E.; Mcnamee, Marybeth; Berman, Jeffrey I.; Mowad, Theresa G.; Ku, Matthew; Bloy, Luke; Liu, Song; Chen, Yu-Han; Airey, Megan; McBride, Emma; Goldin, Sophia; Dipiero, Marissa A.; Blaskey, Lisa; Kuschner, Emily S.; Kim, Mina; Konka, Kimberly; Roberts, Timothy P. L.; Edgar, J. Christopher – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Maturation of auditory cortex neural encoding processes was assessed in children with typical development (TD) and autism. Children 6-9 years old were enrolled at Time 1 (T1), with follow-up data obtained ~ 18 months later at Time 2 (T2), and ~ 36 months later at Time 3 (T3). Findings suggested an initial period of rapid auditory cortex maturation…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Children, Auditory Perception
Kurt, Gamze – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2023
This paper reports the statistical and probabilistic reasoning of young children in terms of randomness, variability, and data representations in the context of informal inferential reasoning (IIR). Using the IIR approach, a task was designed and conducted one-on-one with 28 children aged 5 to 6 years old, in a case study setting. The researcher…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Abstract Reasoning
S. Bahar Sener; Ariel Starr – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
Although we cannot see or touch time, across many cultures, we use spatial representations to think about this abstract concept. Spatial representations of time are thought to support temporal concepts that might otherwise be difficult to represent and reason about, such as the temporal component of episodic memory. One common form of spatially…
Descriptors: Memory, Cultural Pluralism, Spatial Ability, Time
