Cognitive Development

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	41
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	25
Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	22
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What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	21
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	19
Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	18
Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	17
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	17
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	16
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	16
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	16
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	15
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	14
Comments regarding Numerical Estimation Strategies Are Correlated with Math Ability in School-Age Children	14
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	14
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	13
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	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	12
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	11
How much can you learn in one year? How content, pedagogical resources, and learner’s age influence beliefs about knowledge acquisition	11
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	11
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	11
Contingent experience with touchscreens promotes parent-child conversations	11
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	11

Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	11
Arts education and its role in enhancing cognitive development: A quantitative study of critical thinking and creativity in higher education	11
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	10
Contribution of working memory to gesture production in toddlers	10
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	10
How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	10
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	10
Preschoolers represent others’ false beliefs about emotions	10
Shaping executive function in pre-school: The role of early educational practice	9
Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	9
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	9
Understanding cognitive and language development in refugees: Evidence from displaced syrian children in Turkey	9
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	9
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	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
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	9
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	9
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	9
Children deny that God could change morality	9
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Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
Development of visual dominance in face-voice integration: Evidence from cross-modal compatibility effects in a gender categorization task	8
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	8
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	7
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	7
Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	7
The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	7
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	7
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	7
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	7
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	7
Development of spatial size representation of the social categorization of rich and poor	7
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	7
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	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 Early Independent Problem Solving Survey (EIPSS): Its psychometric properties in children aged 12–47 months	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	6
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	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
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	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
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	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

The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6
Morally-relevant theory of mind is related to viewing gender inequalities as unacceptable	6
A longitudinal study on basic numerical skills in early numerical development	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	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
Beyond inhibitory control: Relationship between spatial and social skills in preschool children	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	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
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	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
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	5
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	5
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	5
The impact of early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
Preschoolers’ acquisition of producer-product metonymy	5
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	5
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	5
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	5
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	5
To punish or exclude? Children’s responses to unfair and fair advantages created in competitive contexts	5
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	5
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	5
When it’s okay to hit: How Turkish and U.S. preschoolers and adults make judgments about permissible and impermissible acts of force	4
Mental imagery and visual working memory abilities appear to be unrelated in childhood: Evidence for individual differences in strategy use	4
Sources of individual differences in early elementary school science achievement among multilingual and English monolingual children in the U.S.	4
The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development	4
Using numbers strategically: Proportional reasoning induces wealth in-group bias in an equity task	4
A multi-method approach to addressing the toddler data desert in attention research	4
The influence of parental guidance on video game performance, exploration, and cortical activity in 5-year-old children	4
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	4
The impact of humor on infant social learning: Insights from social gaze, heart rate variability, and laughter	4
Does English orthography influence bilingual Spanish readers? The effect of grapheme crosslinguistic congruency and complexity on letter detection	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
Does reading fluency mediate the relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills and reading comprehension? A study in European Portuguese	4
Assessment of vocabulary comprehension in Bilingual Qom - Spanish Indigenous children in Northern Argentina: Evidence for education, language preservation, and psycholinguistic theory	4
The Early Pretending Survey (EPS): A reliable parent-report measure of pretense type development for 4- to 47-month-olds	4
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	4
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Developmental changes in the time window for the explicit sense of agency experienced across the lifespan	4
Longitudinal association between non-symbolic numerical representation and emerging math competence: The dynamic mediation effect from cardinal knowledge to ordinal skills	4
The role of cognition in person judgments: Introduction to the special issue	4
Children’s understanding of gratitude, generosity, and reciprocity	4
Small procedural differences matter: Conceptual and direct replication attempts of the communication-intervention effect on infants’ false-belief ascriptions	4
Memory for space and time in 2-year-olds	3
Prospects and challenges in the use of puppets in developmental psychology: Royal road to the child’s mind or a dead end?	3
Is secondhand information better read or said? Factors influencing children’s endorsements of text-based information	3
Development of inequity aversion in argentine children in different SES populations	3
Mediators of the associations between family income during adolescence and adult long-term memory and working memory	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
Do multiple exemplars promote preschool children’s retention and generalisation of words learned from pictures?	3
Pretending at hand: How children perceive and process puppets	3
Curiosity and children’s memory for a dinosaur exhibit	3
Biological motion and multiple object tracking performance develop similarly from childhood through early adolescence	3
The distinct contribution of verbal and visuospatial short-term memory abilities to arithmetic development	3
Usage-based approaches to child code-switching: State of the art and ways forward	3
Optimizing adolescent health: Investigating physical activity’s impact on fitness, working memory, and academic performance	3
Thinking inside the box: Mental manipulation of working memory contents in 3- to 7-year-old children	3
Introduction to special issue: Mapping development of our social-cognition of resources	3
Understanding the self in relation to others in nonverbal communication of one’s reasoning	3
Is the order of learning numerals universal? Evidence from eight countries and six languages	3
Relations between the home literacy environment and young children’s theory of mind	3
Conversations about guilt and mental states can improve young children’s performance on the happy victimizer task	3
Emotion words in early childhood: A language transcript analysis	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
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
Enhancing parent and child shape talk during puzzle play	3

Executive functions development: A longitudinal study of children from kindergarten to third grade across varied socioeconomic backgrounds	3
Development of L1-L2 naming skills in a monolingual context: Evidence from children and adolescents	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
The effects of preschool and age on children’s early number skills	3
Theory of mind and executive function in early childhood: A cross-cultural investigation	2
Three- and five-year-olds’ restorative intervention in moral transgressions	2
Role of manually-generated visual cues in crawling and non-crawling 9-month-old infants’ mental rotation	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
The FORAGEKID Game: Hybrid-Foraging as a new way to study aspects of executive function in development	2
Theory of puppets?: A critique of the use of puppets as stimulus materials in psychological research with young children	2
What is the implicit self in infancy? A classification and evaluation of current theories on the early self	2
Early experiences and school readiness: A within and between exploration of the Opportunity Propensity Model	2
A longitudinal reciprocal relation between theory of mind and language	2
Who helps best? Children’s evaluation of knowledgeable versus wealthy individuals in negative event contexts	2
The influence of parent conversation goal and structure on children’s event reports	2
First insights into infants' and children's aha-experiences: A parent report study	2
The judgment of mind: A comparison between children with typical development and children with autism spectrum conditions	2
The role of mathematical vocabulary in the development of mathematical skills for Spanish-speaking students	2
Does the experimenter presence impact children’s working memory?	2
Context specificity in adolescents’ implicit theories of morality	2
Numerical estimation strategies are correlated with math ability in school-aged children	2
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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
Age 4 transitions: Reflection as a domain-general development for explicit reasoning	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
Cognitive offloading by children in perceptual discrimination tasks	2
Executive functions, child development and social functioning in premature preschoolers. A multi-method approach	2
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Grass and gravel: Investigating visual properties preschool children and adults use when distinguishing naturalistic images	2
Observing effortful adults enhances not perseverative but sustained attention in infants aged 12 months	2
The “How many?” task inadequately assesses the understanding of the cardinality principle	2
Predictions of pre-academic mathematical and literacy skills by kindergarten executive functions	2
Spatial abilities in Down syndrome: Characterising the profile of spatial skills and models of spatial development	2
The effect of moral character on children’s judgements of transgressions	2
Young children’s copying of block constructions: Significant constraints in a highly complex task	2
Variability in the relationship between parenting and executive functions: The role of environmental sensitivity	2
Varieties of value: Children differentiate caring from liking	2
Individual differences in children’s anthropomorphic tendencies to their special objects	2
Longitudinal associations between melodic auditory-visual integration and reading precursor skills in beginning readers	2
Selection of information necessary for successful self-derivation	2
Preschoolers’ saving: The role of budgeting and psychological distance on a novel token savings task	2
The difference an explanation makes: Verbal debrief effects when children cope with uncertainty	2
Exploring the role of “in the moment” and global caregiver and child factors in caregiver questioning during shared book viewing	2
Children's sensitivity to authenticity in their extension of brand names	2
Young children selectively adopt sharing norms according to norm content and donor age	2
Sociodramatic play enhances preschoolers’ private speech and motivation across activities	2
Perceiving size through sound in sighted and visually impaired children	2
Relations between intensionality, theory of mind and complex syntax in autism spectrum conditions and typical development	2
Early understanding of ownership helps infants efficiently organize objects in memory	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
The role of gesture and mimicry for children’s pattern learning	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
Help me understand: Adaptive information-seeking predicts academic achievement in school-aged children	2
Humor and social cognition: Correlational and predictive relations in 3- to 47-month-olds	2
Indirect effects of intrusive parenting on externalizing behaviors in socioeconomically disadvantaged children: A parallel mediation analysis	2
Developmental reconstruction of cognitive ability: Interactions between executive, cognizance, and reasoning processes in childhood	2
The effect of foreigner talk on children’s evaluations of addressees	2