Cognitive Development

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Sensitivity to temporal synchrony in audiovisual speech in early infancy: Current issues and future avenues	75
The prediction of syllable awareness, character reading ability, and rapid automatized naming on phoneme awareness: Evidence from a longitudinal Cross-lagged model	28
Predictive relations between executive function and Mandarin vocabulary ability among Uyghur-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers	25
The development of optimistic expectations in young children	25
Childhood adversity is not associated with lowered inhibition, but lower perceptual processing: A Drift Diffusion Model analysis	24
The development of relational language during early childhood: Comprehension and production of cardinal, ordinal, and spatial labels	24
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Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	19
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The role of executive functions and fluid intelligence in the prediction of conditional strategy knowledge of self-regulated learning	16
What contributes to false belief understanding in childhood? A multidimensional approach	16
Winning or losing: Children’s proportional reasoning across motivational contexts	15
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	15
Preschoolers prioritize humans over robots less than adults do: An eye-tracking study	15
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	14
When should children copy their mothers’ food choices? Social learning strategies about foods	14
Having siblings is associated with better mentalizing abilities in adults	14
Relationship between narrative ability and executive functions: A longitudinal study in kindergarten classrooms	14
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	14
Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction	14
Comments regarding Numerical Estimation Strategies Are Correlated with Math Ability in School-Age Children	13
Varieties of social learning in children: Characterizing the development of imitation, goal emulation and affordance learning within subjects and tasks	13
Adolescents’ beliefs about caste-essentialism and their social location in Nepal	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
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	12

Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children	12
Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind	11
Surface-to-structure shifts in rational number categories	11
The effect of background music and noise on alertness of children aged 5–7 years: An EEG study	11
The influence of low family income from birth to adolescence and adulthood on intelligence: Findings from two Brazilian birth cohorts	10
Spontaneous focus on patterns and arithmetic skill in 4- to 6-year-old children	10
How prior experience in analogous tasks affects three-year-olds’ tool making	10
Children deny that God could change morality	10
Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in preadolescence: A longitudinal investigation from early childhood till adolescence	10
Infants do not use payoff information to infer individual goals in joint-action events	10
Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	10
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	9
The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation	9
Preschool children’s resource allocation towards and reasoning about exclusion of agents with disabilities	9
Digital media inhibit self-regulatory private speech use in preschool children: The “digital bubble effect”	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	8
Achievements in arithmetic and measurement units predict fraction understanding in an additive and linear manner	8
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	8
Young children’s attentional bias patterns to emotional male and female faces	8
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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
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	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
Children’s developing disability concepts: A review and recommendations for continued research	7
Relative age effect in formal musical training	7
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	7
Boundaries of apologies: Children avoid transgressors who give the same apology for a repeat offence	7
The development of disability and foreignness concepts: A comparative approach	7
How executive function contributed to young children’s mathematical achievement: The differential role of non-symbolic and symbolic numerical representation	7
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	7
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	7
Assessing inhibitory control in kindergarten children: Validity of integrating response accuracy and response latency	7
Two- and three-year-olds prefer mastery-oriented over outcome-oriented help	6
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The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	6
The development and predictors of school-age children’s nonsymbolic number comparison abilities: Modulated by congruency between numerosity and visual cues	6
Semantic long-term memory and verbal working memory performance: How does their relationship change with age?	6
Children’s understanding of COVID-19: Acquiring knowledge about germs and contagion amidst a global pandemic	6
Predictors and outcomes associated with early math anxiety: Parental factors, working memory and math performance	6
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	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
Age-related decline of metacognitive comprehension monitoring in adults aged 50 and older: Effects of cognitive abilities and educational attainment	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
Children’s executive function during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: Associations with home literacy, reading, and screen times	6
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited: Behavioral shift in task-solving between 4-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and adolescents	6

Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement	6
The roles of self-, mother-, and stranger-determined choice in memory in 5- to 10-year-old Chinese children	6
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	6
A longitudinal study on basic numerical skills in early numerical development	6
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	6
Dating early memories: When did events really happen?	6
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	5
A cross-sequential study of theory of mind, IQ, and fair sharing framed socially and non-socially in young children	5
Early self-control and sustained attention problems: Associations with youth achievement, motivation, and engagement	5
Longitudinal development of executive function from infancy to late childhood	5
Ordinal processing in children with mathematics learning disabilities	5
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	5
Development of inhibitory control in Head Start children: Association with approaches to learning and academic outcomes in kindergarten	5
How young children come to recommend resource choices that reduce waste	5
Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task	5
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	5
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	5
Sound, emotion, and innovation: Rethinking bayan education through digital tools	5
The impact of phonological processing on number transcoding	5
To punish or exclude? Children’s responses to unfair and fair advantages created in competitive contexts	5
Factors affecting children’s direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums	5
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	5
Simplicity and validity in infant research	5
Relationships between executive functions and morphosyntactic skills in Spanish-speaking children with and without developmental language disorder	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 early picture book interaction experience on Chinese character reading of children with Dyslexia: The perspective of visual temporal processing	5
Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent	4
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	4
Children’s use of verbal and nonverbal feedback during communicative repair: Associations with executive functioning and emotion knowledge	4
Dissociations between short and long-term effects of coronavirus pandemic closures: The case of math fluency	4
Does reading fluency mediate the relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills and reading comprehension? A study in European Portuguese	4
The effects of preschool and age on children’s early number skills	4
Memory for space and time in 2-year-olds	4
Longitudinal association between non-symbolic numerical representation and emerging math competence: The dynamic mediation effect from cardinal knowledge to ordinal skills	4
Developmental changes in the time window for the explicit sense of agency experienced across the lifespan	4
The role of cognition in person judgments: Introduction to the special issue	4
Children’s understanding of gratitude, generosity, and reciprocity	4
Motivational context does not influence children’s third-party punishment in intergroup contexts	4
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	4
Early number acquisition in bilingual children	4
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	4
Latine dual language learners' bilingual development in math and cognition: A longitudinal latent profile analysis	4
Using numbers strategically: Proportional reasoning induces wealth in-group bias in an equity task	4
The impact of humor on infant social learning: Insights from social gaze, heart rate variability, and laughter	4
The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development	4
The distinct contribution of verbal and visuospatial short-term memory abilities to arithmetic development	4
Prospects and challenges in the use of puppets in developmental psychology: Royal road to the child’s mind or a dead end?	4
The Early Pretending Survey (EPS): A reliable parent-report measure of pretense type development for 4- to 47-month-olds	4
Puppets as symbols in early development: From whether to how in the Theory of Puppets debate	4
Corrigendum to “Relative age effect in formal musical training” [Cognitive Development 75 (2025), 101603]	4
“How do fish breathe underwater?”: Young children’s ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena	4
Assessment of vocabulary comprehension in Bilingual Qom - Spanish Indigenous children in Northern Argentina: Evidence for education, language preservation, and psycholinguistic theory	4
A multi-method approach to addressing the toddler data desert in attention research	4
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	4
The development of susceptibility to geometric visual illusions in children – A systematic review	4
Is secondhand information better read or said? Factors influencing children’s endorsements of text-based information	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
When it’s okay to hit: How Turkish and U.S. preschoolers and adults make judgments about permissible and impermissible acts of force	4
Is false belief understanding stable from infancy to childhood? We don’t know yet	4
Age group differences in SFON tendency and arithmetical skills of four to seven year olds in four countries with different school starting ages	4
Sources of individual differences in early elementary school science achievement among multilingual and English monolingual children in the U.S.	4
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
Reciprocal reputation management: Preschoolers respond to shared credit with shared blame	3
Do multiple exemplars promote preschool children’s retention and generalisation of words learned from pictures?	3
Three- and five-year-olds’ restorative intervention in moral transgressions	3
The effect of foreigner talk on children’s evaluations of addressees	3
The difference an explanation makes: Verbal debrief effects when children cope with uncertainty	3
The situational characteristics of vertical spatial metaphors for Chinese moral concepts in children and adults	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
Failure supports 3- to 6-year-old children’s mechanistic exploration	3
Do you know the answers? Japanese and Hungarian preschoolers’ response tendencies to comprehensible and incomprehensible yes-no questions	3
Optimizing adolescent health: Investigating physical activity’s impact on fitness, working memory, and academic performance	3
Open-skills sports, especially team ball games, are associated with adolescents’ cognitive abilities: Longitudinal evidence from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study	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
Curiosity and children’s memory for a dinosaur exhibit	3
Selection of information necessary for successful self-derivation	3
Daily fluctuations in children’s working memory accuracy and precision: Variability at multiple time scales and links to daily sleep behavior and fluid intelligence	3

Enhancing spatial skills of disadvantaged children using everyday activities	3
Children’s use of semantic elaboration in immediate serial order memory	3
Is the order of learning numerals universal? Evidence from eight countries and six languages	3
Transparent Vietnamese number-naming system facilitates first graders transcoding – A cross-linguistic study with French	3
Pretending at hand: How children perceive and process puppets	3
Mediators of the associations between family income during adolescence and adult long-term memory and working memory	3
Greater Sharing of Child Autobiographical Memories at Age 4 Anticipates Decreasing Parent Elaborations at Age 6	3
Learning how to communicate: Does exposure to multiple languages promote children’s pragmatic abilities? A meta-analytic review	3
Relations between the home literacy environment and young children’s theory of mind	3
Development of L1-L2 naming skills in a monolingual context: Evidence from children and adolescents	3
Development of inequity aversion in argentine children in different SES populations	3
Theory of mind and executive function in early childhood: A cross-cultural investigation	3
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Word-level knowledge in Chinese children’s word reading and lexical inference development: A multivariate latent growth curve analysis	3
Phonological deficits in the comorbidity of reading difficulty and mathematical difficulty in Chinese adults	3
Common ground without copresence: Preschoolers apply indirect cues about shared knowledge in real-time referential interpretation	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
A quasi-experimental study on increasing motivation and self-regulation skills in basketball players: VR and traditional training	3
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
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
Theory of puppets?: A critique of the use of puppets as stimulus materials in psychological research with young children	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
The relationship between SFON and mathematical language: The mediating role of magnitude representation	2
Relationship between executive function and persistence in 5-year-olds	2
From blank page to bright mind: Comparing the emotional benefits of drawing and other activities in children	2
First insights into infants' and children's aha-experiences: A parent report study	2
Spatial exploration strategies in childhood; exploration behaviours are predictive of navigation success	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
What is the implicit self in infancy? A classification and evaluation of current theories on the early self	2
Who helps best? Children’s evaluation of knowledgeable versus wealthy individuals in negative event contexts	2
Variability in the relationship between parenting and executive functions: The role of environmental sensitivity	2
Age-related differences in autobiographical memory consistency at the level of narrative detail	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
Exploring the role of “in the moment” and global caregiver and child factors in caregiver questioning during shared book viewing	2
Humor and social cognition: Correlational and predictive relations in 3- to 47-month-olds	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
Chinese children show sensitivity to transparency in number gestures earlier than Canadian children	2
Children's sensitivity to authenticity in their extension of brand names	2
Spatial abilities in Down syndrome: Characterising the profile of spatial skills and models of spatial development	2
Parental attitudes and beliefs about mathematics and the use of gestures in children’s math development	2
Grass and gravel: Investigating visual properties preschool children and adults use when distinguishing naturalistic images	2
The effect of moral character on children’s judgements of transgressions	2
Cognitive offloading by children in perceptual discrimination tasks	2
The role of gesture and mimicry for children’s pattern learning	2
Observing effortful adults enhances not perseverative but sustained attention in infants aged 12 months	2
Executive functions, child development and social functioning in premature preschoolers. A multi-method approach	2
Does the experimenter presence impact children’s working memory?	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
A longitudinal reciprocal relation between theory of mind and language	2
The effect of prosodic congruency on novel adjective learning in adults and children	2
Moving with puppets: Preschool children’s gesture with puppets during pretense	2
Integrated knowledge of rational number notations predicts children’s math achievement and understanding of numerical magnitudes	2
The influence of parent conversation goal and structure on children’s event reports	2
Young children’s copying of block constructions: Significant constraints in a highly complex task	2
The effect of amateur piano playing on memory performance: A focus on Chinese piano players	2
Predictions of pre-academic mathematical and literacy skills by kindergarten executive functions	2
The FORAGEKID Game: Hybrid-Foraging as a new way to study aspects of executive function in development	2
Individual differences in children’s anthropomorphic tendencies to their special objects	2
How basic cognitive processing affects children's math problem-solving performance?	2
Indirect effects of intrusive parenting on externalizing behaviors in socioeconomically disadvantaged children: A parallel mediation analysis	2