Cognitive Development

Article	Citations
Mechanisms linking socioeconomic status and academic achievement in early childhood: Cognitive stimulation and language	43
Developmental shifts toward structural explanations and interventions for social status disparities	26
Theory of puppets?: A critique of the use of puppets as stimulus materials in psychological research with young children	21
Reading minds and reading texts: Evidence for independent and specific associations	19
Individual differences in adolescents’ willingness to invest cognitive effort: Relation to need for cognition, motivation and cognitive capacity	19
Executive function and Theory of Mind in explaining young children’s moral reasoning: A Test of the Hierarchical Competing Systems Model	18
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	16
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	15
Longitudinal relations between young students’ feelings about mathematics and arithmetic performance	15
The role of spatial abilities in young children’s spatially-focused touchscreen game play	15
Why does social essentialism sometimes promote, and other times mitigate, prejudice development? A causal discounting perspective	15
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	14
Simplicity and validity in infant research	14
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	14
Age-related changes in the impact of valence on self-referential processing in female adolescents and young adults	13
Development of executive functions in late childhood and the mediating role of cooperative learning: A longitudinal study	13
Rhythm discrimination and metronome tapping in 4-year-old children at risk for developmental dyslexia	12
The moral self-concept in preschool children: Its dimensions and relation to prosocial behaviors	12
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	12
Young children’s moral judgments depend on the social relationship between agents	12
Help me understand: Adaptive information-seeking predicts academic achievement in school-aged children	11
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	11
Morally-relevant theory of mind mediates the relationship between group membership and moral judgments	11
Gaze following emergence relies on both perceptual cues and social awareness	11
Learning about germs in a global pandemic: Children’s knowledge and avoidance of contagious illness before and after COVID-19	11

Is a robot a boy? Japanese children’s and adults’ gender-attribute bias toward robots and its implications for education on gender stereotypes	10
Real-time assessment of looking time at central environmental cues for spontaneous recall in 35-month-olds	10
Developmental reconstruction of cognitive ability: Interactions between executive, cognizance, and reasoning processes in childhood	10
Spatial exploration strategies in childhood; exploration behaviours are predictive of navigation success	10
Relations between intensionality, theory of mind and complex syntax in autism spectrum conditions and typical development	10
Executive function and the development of social information processing during the preschool years	10
Follow-up questions influence the measured number knowledge in the Give-a-number task	10
Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children	10
Discontinuity from implicit to explicit theory of mind from infancy to preschool age	9
Moral masters or moral apprentices? A connectionist account of sociomoral evaluation in preverbal infants	9
Puppet studies present clear and distinct windows into the child’s mind	9
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	9
Young Children Treat Puppets and Dolls Like Real Persons in Theory of Mind Research: A meta-analysis of false-belief understanding across ages and countries	9
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	9
The effect of taxing situations on preschool children’s responses to peer conflict	9
Parent and child spontaneous focus on number, mathematical abilities, and mathematical talk during play activities	9
Numerical estimation strategies are correlated with math ability in school-aged children	9
Contributions of working memory and sustained attention to children’s reading achievement: A commonality analysis approach	9
Developmental differences in monitoring accuracy and cue use when estimating whole-number and fraction magnitudes	8
What I know and what you know: The role of metacognitive strategies in preschoolers’ selective social learning	8
Capturing death in animated films: Can films stimulate parent-child conversations about death?	8
The relation between drawing and language in preschoolers: The role of working Memory and executive functions	8
A critical review of number order judgements and arithmetic: What do order verification tasks actually measure?	8
Fantasy orientation and creativity in childhood: A closer look	8
Bidirectional associations among executive functions, visual-spatial skills, and mathematical achievement in primary school students: Insights from a longitudinal study	8
Sex differences in response inhibition in young children	8
Chinese kindergarteners skilled in mental abacus have advantages in spatial processing and attention	8
Spatial language and mental transformation in preschoolers: Does relational reasoning matter?	8
Working memory capacity, variability, and response to intervention at age 6 and its association to inattention and mathematics age 9	7
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	7
Mapping between number notations in kindergarten and the role of home numeracy	7
Interactional training interventions boost children’s expressive pragmatic abilities: evidence from a novel multidimensional testing approach	7
Children’s experience of economic inequality: How earning position influences prosocial behavior	7
Developmental changes in children’s recognition of the relevance of evidence to causal explanations	7
Cognitive flexibility and strategy training allow young children to overcome transfer-Utilization Deficiencies	7
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
Longitudinal stability and cross-relations of prosocial behavior and the moral self-concept in early childhood	6
Can God do the impossible? Anthropomorphism and children’s certainty that God can make impossible things possible	6
Primary school children’s verbal working memory performances in classrooms with different acoustic conditions	6
The predictive value of the cognitive scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-III	6
Understanding mathematical development in preschool children: The association between mathematical language and mathematical abilities	6
Executive functioning profiles in adolescence: Using person-centered approaches to understand heterogeneity	6
Exploring how visual attention, inhibitory control, and co-speech gesture instruction contribute to children’s analogical reasoning ability	6
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	6
Preschoolers’ acquisition of producer-product metonymy	6
Nationality cognition in India: Social category information impacts children’s judgments of people and their national identity	6
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	6
Age difference in the forward testing effect: The roles of strategy change and release from proactive interference	6
Cheat to win: Children’s judgements of advantageous vs. disadvantageous rule breaking	6
Theory of mind and executive function in early childhood: A cross-cultural investigation	6

Young children’s understanding of justifications for breaking a promise	6
The beginnings of tool innovation in human ontogeny: How three- to five-year-olds solve the vertical and horizontal tube task	6
Long-term relevance and interrelation of symbolic and non-symbolic abilities in mathematical-numerical development: Evidence from large-scale assessment data	6
Integrated knowledge of rational number notations predicts children’s math achievement and understanding of numerical magnitudes	5
Tokens of virtue: Replicating incentivized measures of children’s prosocial behavior with online methods and virtual resources	5
A longitudinal reciprocal relation between theory of mind and language	5
‘If-then’ but when? Effects of implementation intentions on children’s and adolescents’ prospective memory	5
What does the Strange Stories test measure? Developmental and within-test variation	5
Cup! Cup? Cup: Comprehension of intentional prosody in adults and children	5
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	5
Do children know that fantastic events in television programs are not real?	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
What is a good question asker better at? From unsystematic generalization to adult-like selectivity across childhood	5
Pretending at hand: How children perceive and process puppets	5
Developmental changes in understanding emotion in speech in children in Japan and the United States	5
Does English orthography influence bilingual Spanish readers? The effect of grapheme crosslinguistic congruency and complexity on letter detection	5
Does accent trump skin color in guiding children’s social preferences? Evidence from Brazil’s natural lab	5
Cultural similarities and differences in the development of sociomoral judgments: An eye-tracking study	5
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	5
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	5
Role of manually-generated visual cues in crawling and non-crawling 9-month-old infants’ mental rotation	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	5
The role of parent-led and child-led home numeracy activities in early mathematical skills	5
Inequity aversion in old age: An outcome bias in older adults’ socio-economic decisions	5
Interactive elaborative storytelling fosters vocabulary in pre-schoolers compared to repeated-reading and phonemic awareness interventions	5
Is secondhand information better read or said? Factors influencing children’s endorsements of text-based information	5
The use of fingers in addition: A longitudinal study in children from preschool to kindergarten	5
The effect of moral character on children’s judgements of transgressions	5
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.	5
Preschoolers can be instructed to use proactive control	5
Cultural affordances: Does model reliability affect over-imitation in preschoolers	5
Quitting rules in hybrid foraging search: From early childhood to early adulthood	5
Preschool children’s private speech content and performance on executive functioning and problem-solving tasks	5
Young children’s capacity to seek information in preparation for a future event	4
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	4
Young children’s understanding of ordinal and spatial labels	4
The emergence of pointing as a communicative gesture: Age-related differences in infants’ non-social and social use of the index finger	4
Effects of group membership and visual access on children’s selective trust in competitive and non-competitive contexts	4
Early understanding of ownership helps infants efficiently organize objects in memory	4
Generalizing solutions across functionally similar problems correlates with world knowledge and working memory in 2.5- to 4.5-year-olds	4
Children’s and adults’ beliefs about the stability of traits from infancy to adulthood: Contributions of age and executive function	4
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	4
Remembering the future: Age-related differences in schoolchildren’s prospective memory depend on the cognitive resources employed by the task	4
Comments regarding Numerical Estimation Strategies Are Correlated with Math Ability in School-Age Children	4
Perceiving size through sound in sighted and visually impaired children	4
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	4
Foundations for early mathematics skills: The interplay of approximate number system, mapping ability, and home numeracy activities	4
The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	4
Spatial abilities in Down syndrome: Characterising the profile of spatial skills and models of spatial development	4
Preschoolers’ saving: The role of budgeting and psychological distance on a novel token savings task	4
American heterosexual emerging adults’ reasoning about the fairness of household labor	4
Daily fluctuations in children’s working memory accuracy and precision: Variability at multiple time scales and links to daily sleep behavior and fluid intelligence	4
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	4
Modeling the associations between socioeconomic risk factors, executive function components, and reading among children in rural Côte d’Ivoire	4
Flexible retrieval of semantic knowledge predicts temporal memory, but not memory for other types of context, in 4-6-year-olds	4
Emotion words in early childhood: A language transcript analysis	4
A Micro-Analytic Approach to Parent-Child Reminiscing	4
Children consider a speaker’s information privilege and engage in adaptive selective trust in referential cues	4
The approximate number system cannot be the leading factor in the acquisition of the first symbolic numbers	4
The importance of schooling and parental attitudes for children’s prospective memory	4
Residual effects of cannabis-use on neuropsychological functioning	4
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	4
Children’s confidence using incorrect strategies on mathematical equivalence problems	3
Prerequisite skills in cognitive testing: Innovations in theory and recommendations for practice	3
How much can you learn in one year? How content, pedagogical resources, and learner’s age influence beliefs about knowledge acquisition	3
How self-other control determines individual differences in adolescents’ theory of mind	3
Identifying direct and indirect influences on vocabulary development of children from low-income families from infancy to grade 5	3
Children’s selective information transmission in STEM and non-STEM domains	3
The influence of parental guidance on video game performance, exploration, and cortical activity in 5-year-old children	3
Individual differences in children’s anthropomorphic tendencies to their special objects	3
Mental imagery and visual working memory abilities appear to be unrelated in childhood: Evidence for individual differences in strategy use	3
Small procedural differences matter: Conceptual and direct replication attempts of the communication-intervention effect on infants’ false-belief ascriptions	3
Affective empathy mediates the positive effect of prosocial video games on young children’s sharing behavior	3
Children show economic trust for both ingroup and outgroup partners	3
Is cultural variation the norm? A closer look at sequencing of the theory of mind scale	3
Contingent experience with touchscreens promotes parent-child conversations	3
Executive and retrospective memory processes in preschoolers’ prospective memory development	3
Concurrent predictors of science core knowledge in preschool	3
Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	3
Children’s attributions of knowledge and trustworthiness to persons with disabilities	3

The role of accent and speaker certainty in children's selective trust	3
Awareness is one thing and mastery is another: Korean-speaking children’s comprehension of a suffixal passive construction in Korean	3
Varieties of value: Children differentiate caring from liking	3
Perceptual Access Reasoning: What are the alternatives?	3
The role of object features and emotional attachment on preschool children’s anthropomorphism of owned objects	3
Preschoolers represent others’ false beliefs about emotions	3
Children’s prediction of others’ behavior based on group vs. individual properties	3
Understanding additive composition is important for symbolic numerical magnitude processing	3
Sociodramatic play enhances preschoolers’ private speech and motivation across activities	3
Young children selectively adopt sharing norms according to norm content and donor age	3
Longitudinal association between non-symbolic numerical representation and emerging math competence: The dynamic mediation effect from cardinal knowledge to ordinal skills	3
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	3
The influence of bilingualism on adolescent cognition: The roles of biculturalism, the bilingual profile, and linguistic similarity	3
Self-regulation as promotive for academic achievement in young children across risk contexts	3
“I can’t remember!” Three-year-olds struggle to strategically access encoded and consolidated memories	3
When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations	3
Children’s understanding of gratitude, generosity, and reciprocity	2
Children’s endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object’s tangibility	2
A six months’ prospective study of the relations between children’s self-regulated learning skills and maternal supportive behaviors	2
Where and what children count during shared reading of early math books	2
Age group differences in SFON tendency and arithmetical skills of four to seven year olds in four countries with different school starting ages	2
Perspective taking and memory for self- and town-related information in male adolescents and young adults	2
Age 4 transitions: Reflection as a domain-general development for explicit reasoning	2
Mediators of the associations between family income during adolescence and adult long-term memory and working memory	2
Improving literacy development with fine motor skills training: A digital game-based intervention in fourth grade	2
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	2
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	2
Parent-child conversations about animals on a visit to a (virtual) zoo	2
The development of divergent thinking despite poverty: Moderating factors	2
Judging character: How valence and social domain support character judgments in children and adults	2
Relationship between executive function and persistence in 5-year-olds	2
Cognitive flexibility explains unique variance in reading comprehension for elementary students	2
Dynamic variation in receptive vocabulary acquisitions: Further evidence from the Young Lives study	2
Executive functions, child development and social functioning in premature preschoolers. A multi-method approach	2
Go if you know: Preschool children’s movements reflect their metacognitive monitoring	2
Longitudinal evidence for an emotion-action lag on desire: The role of emotional understanding	2
Usage-based approaches to child code-switching: State of the art and ways forward	2
Developmental trajectories of symbolic magnitude and order processing and their relation with arithmetic development	2
Beyond inhibitory control: Relationship between spatial and social skills in preschool children	2
To punish or exclude? Children’s responses to unfair and fair advantages created in competitive contexts	2
To copy or not to copy: A comparison of selective trust and overimitation in young children	2
Is false belief understanding stable from infancy to childhood? We don’t know yet	2
Do we perceive ethnic ingroup members as wealthier? Examining Hong Kong children’s inferences of wealth status based on resources and ethnic group membership	2
Cognitive flexibility in preschoolers: A role for the late frontal negativity (LFN)	2
Children’s group loyalty is related to parental in-group collectivism	2
Children’s understanding of relative quantities: Probability judgement and proportion matching	2
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	2
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	2
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	2
An exploration of the structure of moral intuitions in early adolescence	2
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	2
Conceptualizing values abstractly: Longitudinal development and the role of concept formation and working memory	2
The FORAGEKID Game: Hybrid-Foraging as a new way to study aspects of executive function in development	2
Thinking inside the box: Mental manipulation of working memory contents in 3- to 7-year-old children	2
Moving with puppets: Preschool children’s gesture with puppets during pretense	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 evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	2
The role of gesture and mimicry for children’s pattern learning	2
Ownership as privileged utility	2
Sources of individual differences in early elementary school science achievement among multilingual and English monolingual children in the U.S.	2
Modelling executive function across early childhood: Longitudinal invariance, development from 3.5 to 7 years and later academic performance	2