Cognitive Development

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Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	25
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	24
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	23
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	23
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	19
Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	18
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	18
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	17
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	15
Comments regarding Numerical Estimation Strategies Are Correlated with Math Ability in School-Age Children	14
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	14
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	14
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	14
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	13
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	13
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	13
How much can you learn in one year? How content, pedagogical resources, and learner’s age influence beliefs about knowledge acquisition	13
From spontaneous focusing on numerosity to mathematics achievement: The mediating role of non-symbolic number processing and mapping between symbolic and non-symbolic representations of number	13
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	13
Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	13
Contingent experience with touchscreens promotes parent-child conversations	12
Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	12
Relationship between narrative ability and executive functions: A longitudinal study in kindergarten classrooms	12

How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	12
Adolescents’ beliefs about caste-essentialism and their social location in Nepal	12
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	12
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	12
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	11
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	11
Contribution of working memory to gesture production in toddlers	11
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	11
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	10
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	10
Children deny that God could change morality	10
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	10
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	10
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	10
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	9
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	9
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	9
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	9
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	9
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	9
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Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
Relative age effect in formal musical training	8
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	8
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	8
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	8
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	8
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	7
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	7
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	7
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	7
Cultivating the toddler data desert with the Visual Attention Processing Protocol (VAPP): A novel scalable measure of individual differences in attentional processing from 2 to 6 years old	7
The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	7
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	7
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	7
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	7
Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	7
The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	7
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	7
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A longitudinal study on basic numerical skills in early numerical development	6
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	6
Semantic long-term memory and verbal working memory performance: How does their relationship change with age?	6
Predictors and outcomes associated with early math anxiety: Parental factors, working memory and math performance	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6
The role of phonological decoding, rapid automatized naming, and morphological awareness in Chinese reading acquisition among 6- to 8-year-olds in Taiwan	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6

Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	6
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	6
The relative age effect in secondary schools	6
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	6
Ordinal processing in children with mathematics learning disabilities	6
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	6
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	5
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	5
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
To punish or exclude? Children’s responses to unfair and fair advantages created in competitive contexts	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	5
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	5
Sound, emotion, and innovation: Rethinking bayan education through digital tools	5
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
Children’s endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object’s tangibility	5
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	5
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	5
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	5
Relationships between executive functions and morphosyntactic skills in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	5
Age group differences in SFON tendency and arithmetical skills of four to seven year olds in four countries with different school starting ages	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	5
Children’s understanding of gratitude, generosity, and reciprocity	4
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	4
Latine dual language learners' bilingual development in math and cognition: A longitudinal latent profile analysis	4
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	4
The Early Pretending Survey (EPS): A reliable parent-report measure of pretense type development for 4- to 47-month-olds	4
Sources of individual differences in early elementary school science achievement among multilingual and English monolingual children in the U.S.	4
Developmental changes in the time window for the explicit sense of agency experienced across the lifespan	4
Mental imagery and visual working memory abilities appear to be unrelated in childhood: Evidence for individual differences in strategy use	4
A multi-method approach to addressing the toddler data desert in attention research	4
When it’s okay to hit: How Turkish and U.S. preschoolers and adults make judgments about permissible and impermissible acts of force	4
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	4
The role of cognition in person judgments: Introduction to the special issue	4
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	4
Puppets as symbols in early development: From whether to how in the Theory of Puppets debate	4
Prospects and challenges in the use of puppets in developmental psychology: Royal road to the child’s mind or a dead end?	4
Is false belief understanding stable from infancy to childhood? We don’t know yet	4
The impact of humor on infant social learning: Insights from social gaze, heart rate variability, and laughter	4
Does reading fluency mediate the relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills and reading comprehension? A study in European Portuguese	4
The influence of parental guidance on video game performance, exploration, and cortical activity in 5-year-old children	4
Corrigendum to “Relative age effect in formal musical training” [Cognitive Development 75 (2025), 101603]	4
Assessment of vocabulary comprehension in Bilingual Qom - Spanish Indigenous children in Northern Argentina: Evidence for education, language preservation, and psycholinguistic theory	4
Using numbers strategically: Proportional reasoning induces wealth in-group bias in an equity task	4
The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development	4
Longitudinal association between non-symbolic numerical representation and emerging math competence: The dynamic mediation effect from cardinal knowledge to ordinal skills	4
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How is the developing mind working? Review of “The Working Mind: Meaning and mental attention in human development” by Juan-Pascual-Leone and Janice M. Johnson, MIT Press, 2021	4
Optimizing adolescent health: Investigating physical activity’s impact on fitness, working memory, and academic performance	3
Development of inequity aversion in argentine children in different SES populations	3
Curiosity and children’s memory for a dinosaur exhibit	3
Enhancing parent and child shape talk during puzzle play	3
Memory for space and time in 2-year-olds	3
Emotion words in early childhood: A language transcript analysis	3
Learning how to communicate: Does exposure to multiple languages promote children’s pragmatic abilities? A meta-analytic review	3
Do multiple exemplars promote preschool children’s retention and generalisation of words learned from pictures?	3
Common ground without copresence: Preschoolers apply indirect cues about shared knowledge in real-time referential interpretation	3
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Three- and five-year-olds’ restorative intervention in moral transgressions	3
Word-level knowledge in Chinese children’s word reading and lexical inference development: A multivariate latent growth curve analysis	3
Understanding the self in relation to others in nonverbal communication of one’s reasoning	3
Failure supports 3- to 6-year-old children’s mechanistic exploration	3
Reciprocal reputation management: Preschoolers respond to shared credit with shared blame	3
Transparent Vietnamese number-naming system facilitates first graders transcoding – A cross-linguistic study with French	3
Relations between the home literacy environment and young children’s theory of mind	3
Biological motion and multiple object tracking performance develop similarly from childhood through early adolescence	3
The effects of preschool and age on children’s early number skills	3
Is the order of learning numerals universal? Evidence from eight countries and six languages	3

Pretending at hand: How children perceive and process puppets	3
Selection of information necessary for successful self-derivation	3
Numerical estimation strategies are correlated with math ability in school-aged children	3
Theory of mind and executive function in early childhood: A cross-cultural investigation	3
Greater Sharing of Child Autobiographical Memories at Age 4 Anticipates Decreasing Parent Elaborations at Age 6	3
The difference an explanation makes: Verbal debrief effects when children cope with uncertainty	3
Development of L1-L2 naming skills in a monolingual context: Evidence from children and adolescents	3
The underlying processes of episodic memory development: From a unique contribution of representation to the increasing use of semantic organization supported by cognitive control	3
Do you know the answers? Japanese and Hungarian preschoolers’ response tendencies to comprehensible and incomprehensible yes-no questions	3
Introduction to special issue: Mapping development of our social-cognition of resources	3
Usage-based approaches to child code-switching: State of the art and ways forward	3
Conversations about guilt and mental states can improve young children’s performance on the happy victimizer task	3
The distinct contribution of verbal and visuospatial short-term memory abilities to arithmetic development	3
Is secondhand information better read or said? Factors influencing children’s endorsements of text-based information	3
Executive functions development: A longitudinal study of children from kindergarten to third grade across varied socioeconomic backgrounds	3
Longitudinal associations between melodic auditory-visual integration and reading precursor skills in beginning readers	3
The effect of foreigner talk on children’s evaluations of addressees	3
Reply to Poulin-Dubois et al. (2023): Replication problems concerning both implicit and explicit false belief reasoning greatly reduced the chance of finding longitudinal correlations.	3
The development of susceptibility to geometric visual illusions in children – A systematic review	3
Mediators of the associations between family income during adolescence and adult long-term memory and working memory	3
Relationship between executive function and persistence in 5-year-olds	2
Spatial abilities in Down syndrome: Characterising the profile of spatial skills and models of spatial development	2
Father, mother, and toddler spatial talk in a favorite activity: Associations with gender, dominant language, and activity choice	2
How basic cognitive processing affects children's math problem-solving performance?	2
The influence of parent conversation goal and structure on children’s event reports	2
From blank page to bright mind: Comparing the emotional benefits of drawing and other activities in children	2
Developmental reconstruction of cognitive ability: Interactions between executive, cognizance, and reasoning processes in childhood	2
Spatial exploration strategies in childhood; exploration behaviours are predictive of navigation success	2
Grass and gravel: Investigating visual properties preschool children and adults use when distinguishing naturalistic images	2
Chinese children show sensitivity to transparency in number gestures earlier than Canadian children	2
The effect of amateur piano playing on memory performance: A focus on Chinese piano players	2
The role of gesture and mimicry for children’s pattern learning	2
Early experiences and school readiness: A within and between exploration of the Opportunity Propensity Model	2
Early understanding of ownership helps infants efficiently organize objects in memory	2
The effect of moral character on children’s judgements of transgressions	2
The FORAGEKID Game: Hybrid-Foraging as a new way to study aspects of executive function in development	2
Who helps best? Children’s evaluation of knowledgeable versus wealthy individuals in negative event contexts	2
My tablet’s about to go dead! 5- to 6-year-old children adjust their cognitive strategies depending on whether an external resource is reliably available	2
Indirect effects of intrusive parenting on externalizing behaviors in socioeconomically disadvantaged children: A parallel mediation analysis	2
Observing effortful adults enhances not perseverative but sustained attention in infants aged 12 months	2
Daily fluctuations in children’s working memory accuracy and precision: Variability at multiple time scales and links to daily sleep behavior and fluid intelligence	2
Does the experimenter presence impact children’s working memory?	2
Theory of puppets?: A critique of the use of puppets as stimulus materials in psychological research with young children	2
Preschool children’s intuitions of parallelism	2
The role of mathematical vocabulary in the development of mathematical skills for Spanish-speaking students	2
Integrated knowledge of rational number notations predicts children’s math achievement and understanding of numerical magnitudes	2
A longitudinal reciprocal relation between theory of mind and language	2
Developmental changes in understanding emotion in speech in children in Japan and the United States	2
Moving with puppets: Preschool children’s gesture with puppets during pretense	2
The rich are happy, and the poor are sad: The development of association between facial expressions and the rich and poor among children	2
Predictions of pre-academic mathematical and literacy skills by kindergarten executive functions	2
Young children’s copying of block constructions: Significant constraints in a highly complex task	2
First insights into infants' and children's aha-experiences: A parent report study	2
A longitudinal study of Turkish-Dutch children’s language mixing in single-language settings: Language status, language proficiency, cognitive control and developmental language disorder	2
Five-year old children’s responses to story stem assessments predicts their reflective functioning at 16 years: Re-visiting the London Parent-Child Project	2
Context specificity in adolescents’ implicit theories of morality	2
Exploring the role of “in the moment” and global caregiver and child factors in caregiver questioning during shared book viewing	2
Preschoolers’ saving: The role of budgeting and psychological distance on a novel token savings task	2
What is the implicit self in infancy? A classification and evaluation of current theories on the early self	2
The predictive value of the cognitive scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-III	2
Understanding mathematical development in preschool children: The association between mathematical language and mathematical abilities	2
Cognitive offloading by children in perceptual discrimination tasks	2
Parental attitudes and beliefs about mathematics and the use of gestures in children’s math development	2
The effect of prosodic congruency on novel adjective learning in adults and children	2
Humor and social cognition: Correlational and predictive relations in 3- to 47-month-olds	2
The “How many?” task inadequately assesses the understanding of the cardinality principle	2
Variability in the relationship between parenting and executive functions: The role of environmental sensitivity	2
Children's sensitivity to authenticity in their extension of brand names	2
Individual differences in children’s anthropomorphic tendencies to their special objects	2
Executive functions, child development and social functioning in premature preschoolers. A multi-method approach	2
Age-related differences in autobiographical memory consistency at the level of narrative detail	2