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📣📣 Check out a recent work by Emily E. Stonehouse et al. in JCD: "Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories"
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Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories
Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2547629
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📣📣A recent work by Sydney Rossiter et al. in JCD: Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?
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Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?
Preschoolers often make more optimal future-oriented decisions for another person than for themselves (i.e., other-over-self advantage). This advantage may reflect psychological distance from the s...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2541727
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📣📣 A recent paper by Lesenia R. Fish & Arber Tasimi at JCD: Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms
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Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms
Climate change poses an increasingly dangerous threat to human life, necessitating widespread behavior change to mitigate its effects. Thus, targeting children, whose habits and norms are still for...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2525165
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📣📣 A recent paper by Hawes et al. at JCD: How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions ‪@zackhawes.bsky.social‬ ‪@hannahwhitehead.bsky.social‬
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How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions
This study addresses the question of whether and how language influences mathematical cognition. Canadian students in Grades 4–7 (N = 348) were asked fraction multiplication questions in one of the...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2521258
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📣📣 A recent paper by Meghan C. Orman et al. in JCD: Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland
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Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland
Nature connection (NC) in early childhood is increasingly recognized as a potential pathway to the development of lifelong environmental values and behaviors – a pathway that may hold growing relev...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2506044
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📣📣 A recent paper by Hande Ilgaz et al. in JCD: "More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind"
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More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind
This study longitudinally investigated the relation between maternal mental state (MS) language when narrating a familiar wordless storybook and preschoolers’ theory of mind (ToM) abilities. Mother...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2506057
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📣📣 A recent article by Lizette Pizza & Roberto Posada in JCD: How Human Exceptionalist Assumptions Impact Environmental Attitudes in Low Socioeconomic Urban Communities in Colombia
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📣📣 A recent article by Tal Waltzer et al.: “What is Climate Change and What Can I Do About It?” A Survey and Educational Intervention with 10- to 13-Year-Olds
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📣📣 Check out a recent article published in JCD by Shaocong Ma & Paul L. Harris “Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena
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“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena
Climate change poses global challenges to health and the economy, particularly affecting children’s well-being in developing countries. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence for the reality and ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2506066
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📣📣 A recent paper by Haley Weaver & Jenny Saffran: Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type
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Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type
The role of function in toddlers’ object labeling has been debated for decades in developmental science. We aimed to clarify the relation between toddlers’ understanding of functions and words usin...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2495783
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📣📣 In a recent paper in JCD, Narae Ju et al. found that feedback improves 5-year-olds’ communicative perspective-taking.
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That’s not the One I Wanted: Feedback Improves 5-Year-olds’ Communicative Perspective-Taking
Effective communication requires participants to recognize what knowledge is shared and what knowledge remains unique to each person. Although research has examined the developmental emergence of t...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2492021
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📣📣 A recent paper by Mary C. Wagner et al. in JCD: Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills
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Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills
Attending to numerical and spatial magnitude information is important for many math skills (e.g. measurement, proportional reasoning). The flexible attention to magnitudes (FAM) account proposes th...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2480072
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📣📣 A recent paper by Nicholas A. Vest and colleagues: Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills?
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Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills?
Children regularly encounter growing and decreasing patterns in songs, games, and daily routines. Over development, children learn to extend and abstract (i.e., recreate the pattern using different...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Nicole J. Stucke & Sabine Doebel in JCD: Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task
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Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task
Recent studies suggest that girls as young as 4 years of age in the US are affected by negative gender-science stereotypes and persist less than boys on science tasks. However to date, no studies h...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2484214
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📣📣 A recent paper in JCD: "Longitudinal Mediated Relations Between Screen Time and School Adjustment Through Executive Function Difficulties" by Juyoung Kim & Monica Tsethlikai
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Longitudinal Mediated Relations Between Screen Time and School Adjustment Through Executive Function Difficulties
As screen time (ST) constitutes an integral part of the daily lives of children today, parents, educators, and researchers have explored the associations of ST with children’s cognitive, behavioral...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2484212
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📣📣 A recent paper by Scott A. Adler & Thomas J. Baker in JCD: Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity
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Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity
Speed of information processing (SIP) as determined by the response to spatial uncertainty is an important, perhaps limiting, factor for cognitive development. With adults, although their manual re...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2480071
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📣📣 A recent paper by Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira, & Tilbe Göksun: Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children
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Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children
One of the earliest sources of mathematical input arises in dyadic parent–child interactions. However, the emphasis has been on parental input only in speech and how input varies across different e...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2470245
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📣📣 A recent paper by Jorge Cuartas et al. in JCD: "Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence"
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Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence
Climate change comprises acute shocks and protracted hazards that threaten societies, communities, and families worldwide. Still, little work has investigated the potential impacts of climate chang...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2468187
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📣📣 A recent paper by Maria M. Arredondo and colleagues in JCD: The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Children’s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals
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The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Children’s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals
This work investigated whether Mexican-American bilingual children and Mexican monolingual children (ages 4–6; N = 245) use Spanish varieties (Puerto Rican vs. Mexican) when making friendship judgm...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2470239
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📣📣 A recent paper in JCD on "Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions" by Julie M. Schneider & Maria Maldonado
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Bridging the Divide: Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions
The 30 million word gap refers to the disparity in early language exposure between low socioeconomic status (SES) children and their higher SES peers, a gap that is thought to negatively impact chi...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2459661
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📣📣 Check out this commentary by Vikram Jaswal et al.: "The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times"
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The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times
Published in Journal of Cognition and Development (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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📣📣 A recent paper by Ebru Ger, Paul Ibbotson & Tilbe Göksun on "The Relationship Between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children."
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The Relationship Between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children
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...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2456842
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📣📣 Check out the special issue on "Delay of gratification: What have we learned after more than 50 years?" co-edited by Ulrich Mueller & Caitlin Mahy:
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Interested researchers can submit a 1000-word abstract by May 31, 2025.
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Delay of gratification: What have we learned after more than 50 years?
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📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Annette Sundqvist et al.: "Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds"
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Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds
In the area of early language development, understanding links between screen media, vocabulary, and grammar in 5-year-old children is crucial yet complex. While previous studies have exposed a neg...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2456816
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📣📣 A recent paper in JCD by Sangmi Park & Alena G. Esposito: Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement
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Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement
Rational number knowledge is critical in both current and future mathematical success. Despite its importance, there is a gap in understanding regarding how children process quantitative informatio...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2456813
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📣📣 A registered report by Pearce & Miller showed the significance of considering motor and cognitive factors in early childhood EF development. "Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children"
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Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children
This registered report examines the effect of motor disruption in the conscious control of behavior (i.e. executive function – EF) of three-year-old children in the Southern United States (N = 114)...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2444970#abstract
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📣📣 A recent paper by Cahoon et al. in JCD: The Cognitive and Numerical Predictors of Early Mathematical Achievement: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis
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The Cognitive and Numerical Predictors of Early Mathematical Achievement: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis
Longitudinal studies are essential for understanding causes of developmental change and growth rates of mathematical achievement. One hundred and twenty-eight UK-based children (Mage = 4 years; SDa...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2434036
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📣📣 In a recent paper Hongyang Zhao and colleagues examined individual differences in attention to analogical relations in children from the US and showed that relational attention is a key mechanism for learning.
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Individual Differences in Attention to Analogical Relations
Children reasoning about the world must attend to not only visible objects but also the relations between them. For example, in mathematics classroom, it is crucial to notice not only objects in wo...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2441684
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📣📣 A recent paper in JDC by Steven Stelz & Mareike Altgassen: Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan
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Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan
Prospective Memory (PM), the ability to carry out future intentions at a specific time or event, develops in an inverted U-shaped function across the lifespan. Most studies have examined age-relate...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2441689#abstract
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Are you a lab manager/RA, undergraduate or graduate student, post doc or junior faculty involved in Cognitive Development? You can apply to the CDS Mentorship Program. Make sure you apply by March 31.
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📣📣 A recent paper in JCD: Yanwen Wu showed an association between counterfactual reasoning and working memory in Chinese preschool children
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An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children
Counterfactual reasoning involves reasoning about what could have happened but did not happen in the past. It assists people to learn from experience to improve future performance. Different from E...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2430194
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📣📣 A recent paper by Jonet Artis and colleagues at JCD: "Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers"
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Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers
This research paper explores the role of speaker, listener and real-time social attention for pronoun comprehension in autistic and nonautistic children in the northeast United States. We assessed ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2470236
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📣📣 A recent paper in JCD "Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions." Nina Ni Ye & Xiao Pan Ding showed that children pay attention to interpersonal interactions when making trustworthiness judgments
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Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions
Children rely on the information gained in their observations of others to make inferences about intentions. Such observations often involve an informant who makes a claim, a receiver’s epistemic a...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2430193
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The CDS Mentorship Program is open to all regardless of whether or not they are a member of CDS. There are no restrictions on where mentees are geographically located or the institution where they are based. Apply by March 31.
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📣📣 A recently published registered report in JCD by Samuel Essler, Johannes Bullinger, & Markus Paulus: "The Development of Redistributive Justice in Response to Individually and Structurally Based Inequalities"
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When Private Property Becomes a Public Issue: The Development of Redistributive Justice in Response to Individually and Structurally Based Inequalities
Growing economic inequalities are crucial issues of modern societies. Some inequalities are mostly caused by individual factors (e.g., merit), while others follow from structural asymmetries (e.g.,...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2431105
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CDS Mentorship Program now accepting mentee applications. The program pairs mentees (e.g., RAs, students, postdocs, early career faculty) with CDS members to provide mentees with insights, guidance & advice on topics of interest to those mentees. Application: March 31
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📣📣 A recent study published in JCD by Naoko Nakamichi found that 4-5-year-old children remember foods disliked by others better than foods liked by others!
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Children Remember Foods Disliked by Others Better Than Foods Liked by Others
Young children socially learn “what to eat” and “what not to eat” by observing others’ preferences for, and aversions to, specific food items. However, it is not clear which learning children prior...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2430196
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Participate in the CDS Mentorship Program as a mentee, mentor or both! Mentees at the graduate student, postdoc, and faculty level are also encouraged to serve as mentors for more junior mentees. Application deadline: March 31
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📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Weijia Li et al.: Spatial Perspective Taking in Non-Autistic Children and Autistic Children: Do Social Processes Benefit or Obstruct?https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2421220
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Spatial Perspective Taking in Non-Autistic Children and Autistic Children: Do Social Processes Benefit or Obstruct?
The present study investigated whether the presence of another person in a visuospatial perspective taking (VSPT) paradigm would influence the performance of non-autistic and autistic children. Exp...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2421220
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📣📣 Check out a recent article on "Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence" by Qiuyi Kong and colleagues in JCD! Both ToM accuracy and preference for mental state reasoning continue to develop from middle childhood to adulthood.
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Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: Accuracy and Preference for Mental-State Reasoning
While there is a steady increase in research examining growth of theory of mind (ToM) over middle childhood and adolescence, there remains a paucity of studies on how older children employ ToM to i...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2418631
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📣📣 A recent article in the Journal of Cognition Development! How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US by Priscilla Tovar-Perez et al.
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How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US
A basic cognitive ability is the ability to detect patterns in the environment. A key pattern that could be useful in verb learning concerns correspondences between verbs and events. No prior study...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2418628
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📣📣 A recent article in the Journal of Cognition Development! Emily Foster Hanson, Katherine M. Ziska & Marjorie Rhodes found that common conceptual biases from cultural input may shape U.S. children’s idealized biological prototypes
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How Cultural Input Shapes the Development of Idealized Biological Prototypes
Young children in the U.S. tend to hold narrow, idealized prototypes for animal and social categories, focusing on ideas about how categories should be and ignoring category variability. The curren...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2409680
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📣📣 Check out a recent article published in the Journal of Cognition Development by Jessica N. Steil & Claudia K. Friedrich! 2-year-olds link nouns to typical space (e.g., moon to an upward space), showing early language-space associations!
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Toddlers and Adults Link Nouns to Typical Space, but What do Infants do?
When adults hear a noun with an implicit up location, like “moon”, they typically respond faster with an up compared to a down response. Conversely, for nouns with an implicit down location, like “...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2404867
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