Cognitive Development

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Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	108
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	31
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	29
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	23
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	20
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The role of executive functions and fluid intelligence in the prediction of conditional strategy knowledge of self-regulated learning	19
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	19
Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	18
Improving students’ creativity and Chinese academic achievement through Mind-Mapping integrated Differentiated Instruction (MM-DI)	18
Adolescents’ beliefs about caste-essentialism and their social location in Nepal	17
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	16
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	14
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	13
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	13
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	13
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	13
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	12
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	12
Effect of instruction medium and modality on learning spatial concepts	12
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	11
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	11
Spontaneous focus on patterns and arithmetic skill in 4- to 6-year-old children	11
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	11

Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	11
Relationship between narrative ability and executive functions: A longitudinal study in kindergarten classrooms	11
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	11
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	10
How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	9
Children deny that God could change morality	9
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	9
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	9
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	9
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	9
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	9
Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	9
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	9
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	9
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	8
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	8
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	8
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	8
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	8
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Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
Unlocking potentials: Impact of integrating scaffolded educational escape rooms on junior high school students’ motivation, creativity, and academic achievement in Chinese language instruction	8
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	7
The Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	7
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	7
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	7
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	7
Influences of training length on the effectiveness of a number board intervention for 6-year-old German kindergartners	7
Modulation of attentional blink with sound in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	7
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	7
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	7
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	7
Relative age effect in formal musical training	7
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
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The role of phonological decoding, rapid automatized naming, and morphological awareness in Chinese reading acquisition among 6- to 8-year-olds in Taiwan	7
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	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
Ordinal processing in children with mathematics learning disabilities	6
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	6
Children’s endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object’s tangibility	6
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	6
Sound, emotion, and innovation: Rethinking bayan education through digital tools	6

Predictors and outcomes associated with early math anxiety: Parental factors, working memory and math performance	6
Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	6
The relative age effect in secondary schools	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	6
How young children come to recommend resource choices that reduce waste	6
Children’s and adolescents’ judgments of the desirability and obligatoriness of prosocial action: Variations across helping, sharing, and comforting	6
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Internal manipulation of working memory: Developmental differences in early childhood	5
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Language context shapes bilingual children’s memory for newly encountered words	5
Relations between morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge and word reading in different orthographies and scripts: Evidence from Africa and Asia	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
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
Relationships between executive functions and morphosyntactic skills in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	5
Assessment of vocabulary comprehension in Bilingual Qom - Spanish Indigenous children in Northern Argentina: Evidence for education, language preservation, and psycholinguistic theory	5
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
A multi-method approach to addressing the toddler data desert in attention research	4
Latine dual language learners' bilingual development in math and cognition: A longitudinal latent profile analysis	4
Seeing the big picture: How early-learned nouns and their referents co-occur in children’s picture books	4
Corrigendum to “Relative age effect in formal musical training” [Cognitive Development 75 (2025), 101603]	4
Children’s understanding of gratitude, generosity, and reciprocity	4
Examining the impact of dialogic reading interventions with math picture books	4
Prospects and challenges in the use of puppets in developmental psychology: Royal road to the child’s mind or a dead end?	4
Longitudinal association between non-symbolic numerical representation and emerging math competence: The dynamic mediation effect from cardinal knowledge to ordinal skills	4
The Early Pretending Survey (EPS): A reliable parent-report measure of pretense type development for 4- to 47-month-olds	4
Does reading fluency mediate the relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills and reading comprehension? A study in European Portuguese	4
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	4
Development of an object-space binding bias in episodic memory	4
The relation between spatial language comprehension and mental transformation during early childhood	4
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	4
The impact of humor on infant social learning: Insights from social gaze, heart rate variability, and laughter	4
Developmental changes in the time window for the explicit sense of agency experienced across the lifespan	4
Sources of individual differences in early elementary school science achievement among multilingual and English monolingual children in the U.S.	4
Is false belief understanding stable from infancy to childhood? We don’t know yet	4
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
Puppets as symbols in early development: From whether to how in the Theory of Puppets debate	4
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	4
Motivational context does not influence children’s third-party punishment in intergroup contexts	4
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	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
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Exposure to repeated behaviors in everyday life and pattern recognition ability predict preschoolers' subsequent theory of mind	4
Children’s prosocial and selfish rule-breaking following an implicit quid pro quo	4
Introduction to special issue: Mapping development of our social-cognition of resources	3
Greater Sharing of Child Autobiographical Memories at Age 4 Anticipates Decreasing Parent Elaborations at Age 6	3
The development of susceptibility to geometric visual illusions in children – A systematic review	3
Learning how to communicate: Does exposure to multiple languages promote children’s pragmatic abilities? A meta-analytic review	3
Open-skills sports, especially team ball games, are associated with adolescents’ cognitive abilities: Longitudinal evidence from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study	3
A quasi-experimental study on increasing motivation and self-regulation skills in basketball players: VR and traditional training	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
Iconic gestures on L1 vocabulary acquisition in kindergarteners: A preliminary study	3
Phonological deficits in the comorbidity of reading difficulty and mathematical difficulty in Chinese adults	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
Enhancing spatial skills of disadvantaged children using everyday activities	3
Optimizing adolescent health: Investigating physical activity’s impact on fitness, working memory, and academic performance	3
Do multiple exemplars promote preschool children’s retention and generalisation of words learned from pictures?	3
The situational characteristics of vertical spatial metaphors for Chinese moral concepts in children and adults	3
Memory for space and time in 2-year-olds	3
The effects of preschool and age on children’s early number skills	3
Is secondhand information better read or said? Factors influencing children’s endorsements of text-based information	3
Pretending at hand: How children perceive and process puppets	3
Executive functions development: A longitudinal study of children from kindergarten to third grade across varied socioeconomic backgrounds	3
The effect of foreigner talk on children’s evaluations of addressees	3
Children’s use of semantic elaboration in immediate serial order memory	3
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Is the order of learning numerals universal? Evidence from eight countries and six languages	3
Failure supports 3- to 6-year-old children’s mechanistic exploration	3
Common ground without copresence: Preschoolers apply indirect cues about shared knowledge in real-time referential interpretation	3
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Do you know the answers? Japanese and Hungarian preschoolers’ response tendencies to comprehensible and incomprehensible yes-no questions	3
Biological motion and multiple object tracking performance develop similarly from childhood through early adolescence	3
Usage-based approaches to child code-switching: State of the art and ways forward	3
Curiosity and children’s memory for a dinosaur exhibit	3
Understanding the self in relation to others in nonverbal communication of one’s reasoning	3
The effect of home math activities on mathematical abilities in preschool children: The mediating effect of spontaneous focusing on numerosity	3
Enhancing parent and child shape talk during puzzle play	3
Do older 2-year-olds deploy explicit possibility concepts in action planning?	3
Development of inequity aversion in argentine children in different SES populations	3
Low and high control working memory and counting skills in children	3
Reciprocal reputation management: Preschoolers respond to shared credit with shared blame	3
Spatial abilities in Down syndrome: Characterising the profile of spatial skills and models of spatial development	2
The role of mathematical vocabulary in the development of mathematical skills for Spanish-speaking students	2
Father, mother, and toddler spatial talk in a favorite activity: Associations with gender, dominant language, and activity choice	2
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.	2
First insights into infants' and children's aha-experiences: A parent report study	2
Variability in the relationship between parenting and executive functions: The role of environmental sensitivity	2
The effect of moral character on children’s judgements of transgressions	2
The relationship between SFON and mathematical language: The mediating role of magnitude representation	2
Predictions of pre-academic mathematical and literacy skills by kindergarten executive functions	2
The effect of prosodic congruency on novel adjective learning in adults and children	2
The influence of parent conversation goal and structure on children’s event reports	2
Individual differences in children’s anthropomorphic tendencies to their special objects	2
Exploring the development and stimulation of Spontaneous Focusing On Patterns (SFOP)	2
Multimodal imitation reveals differences in typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders	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
Grass and gravel: Investigating visual properties preschool children and adults use when distinguishing naturalistic images	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
One book, two minds: Understanding differences in maternal mental state talk during storytelling across siblings	2
Selection of information necessary for successful self-derivation	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
Age-related differences in autobiographical memory consistency at the level of narrative detail	2
How basic cognitive processing affects children's math problem-solving performance?	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
Preschool children’s intuitions of parallelism	2
What is the implicit self in infancy? A classification and evaluation of current theories on the early self	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
Children's sensitivity to authenticity in their extension of brand names	2
Observing effortful adults enhances not perseverative but sustained attention in infants aged 12 months	2
The effect of amateur piano playing on memory performance: A focus on Chinese piano players	2
Exploring the role of “in the moment” and global caregiver and child factors in caregiver questioning during shared book viewing	2
From blank page to bright mind: Comparing the emotional benefits of drawing and other activities in children	2
Indirect effects of intrusive parenting on externalizing behaviors in socioeconomically disadvantaged children: A parallel mediation analysis	2
Word-level knowledge in Chinese children’s word reading and lexical inference development: A multivariate latent growth curve analysis	2
Early understanding of ownership helps infants efficiently organize objects in memory	2
Preschoolers’ saving: The role of budgeting and psychological distance on a novel token savings task	2
Cognitive predictors of low-income preschoolers’ moral judgments about physical harm: A longitudinal person-centered study	2
Young children’s copying of block constructions: Significant constraints in a highly complex task	2
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Early experiences and school readiness: A within and between exploration of the Opportunity Propensity Model	2
Associations between infant multilingualism and language production and their effects on preschool-aged language development	2
The “How many?” task inadequately assesses the understanding of the cardinality principle	2
Humor and social cognition: Correlational and predictive relations in 3- to 47-month-olds	2
Does the experimenter presence impact children’s working memory?	2
Relationship between executive function and persistence in 5-year-olds	2
Cognitive offloading by children in perceptual discrimination tasks	2
Who helps best? Children’s evaluation of knowledgeable versus wealthy individuals in negative event contexts	2
The FORAGEKID Game: Hybrid-Foraging as a new way to study aspects of executive function in development	2
The role of gesture and mimicry for children’s pattern learning	2