Cognitive Development

Article	Citations
Mechanisms linking socioeconomic status and academic achievement in early childhood: Cognitive stimulation and language	35
Emotion understanding and the moral self-concept as motivators of prosocial behavior in middle childhood	34
Young children’s judgments and reasoning about prosocial acts: Impermissible, suberogatory, obligatory, or supererogatory?	23
Developmental shifts toward structural explanations and interventions for social status disparities	21
Near- and far-transfer effects of an executive function intervention for 2nd to 5th-grade struggling readers	21
Theory of puppets?: A critique of the use of puppets as stimulus materials in psychological research with young children	19
Individual differences in adolescents’ willingness to invest cognitive effort: Relation to need for cognition, motivation and cognitive capacity	18
Cognition and cognizance in preschool predict school achievement in primary school	17
Longitudinal associations between theory of mind and metaphor understanding during middle childhood	17
Reading minds and reading texts: Evidence for independent and specific associations	15
Pretend play as a protective factor for developing executive functions among children living in poverty	15
Children’s perception of social robots as a source of information across different domains of knowledge	14
Categorization of objects and faces in the infant brain and its sensitivity to maternal odor: further evidence for the role of intersensory congruency in perceptual development	14
Executive function and Theory of Mind in explaining young children’s moral reasoning: A Test of the Hierarchical Competing Systems Model	13
The role of spatial abilities in young children’s spatially-focused touchscreen game play	13
Distinct inhibition dimensions differentially account for working memory performance in 5-year-old children	13
Understanding verbal indirect communication in monolingual and bilingual children	13
The development of event perception and memory	12
Development of executive functions in late childhood and the mediating role of cooperative learning: A longitudinal study	12
What should we eat for breakfast? American and Chinese children’s prescriptive judgments about breakfast foods	11
Young children’s moral judgments depend on the social relationship between agents	11
Simplicity and validity in infant research	11
Why does social essentialism sometimes promote, and other times mitigate, prejudice development? A causal discounting perspective	11
Numeracy skills mediate the relation between executive function and mathematics achievement in early childhood	11
Gaze following emergence relies on both perceptual cues and social awareness	10

Help me understand: Adaptive information-seeking predicts academic achievement in school-aged children	10
Real-time assessment of looking time at central environmental cues for spontaneous recall in 35-month-olds	10
Longitudinal relations between young students’ feelings about mathematics and arithmetic performance	10
Children’s implicit food cognition: Developing a food Implicit Association Test	10
Two-digit number writing and arithmetic in Year 1 children: Does number word inversion matter?	10
Developmental reconstruction of cognitive ability: Interactions between executive, cognizance, and reasoning processes in childhood	10
Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and metaanalysis	10
Learning about germs in a global pandemic: Children’s knowledge and avoidance of contagious illness before and after COVID-19	10
Relations between intensionality, theory of mind and complex syntax in autism spectrum conditions and typical development	9
The role of word-recognition accuracy in the development of word-recognition speed and reading comprehension in primary school: A longitudinal examination	9
Children’s learning from implicit analogies during instruction: Evidence from fraction division	9
The contribution of cognitive and linguistic skills in L1 and EFL to English spelling among native speakers of Arabic and Hebrew	9
Follow-up questions influence the measured number knowledge in the Give-a-number task	9
Can autonomy play a role in causal reasoning?	9
Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation	9
Children’s developing understanding that even reliable sources need to verify their claims	9
The moral self-concept in preschool children: Its dimensions and relation to prosocial behaviors	9
Morally-relevant theory of mind mediates the relationship between group membership and moral judgments	9
Interpersonal regret and prosocial risk taking in children	9
‘I didn’t even know one of the conventions before’: Explicit EFL spelling instruction and individual differences	9
“You shouldn’t feel this way!” Children’s and adolescents’ interpersonal emotion regulation of victims’ and violators’ feelings after social exclusion	9
Home learning environment and physical development impact children’s executive function development and literacy in rural Côte d’Ivoire	9
Food as a borderline domain of knowledge: The development of domain-specific inductive reasoning strategies in young children	8
Moral masters or moral apprentices? A connectionist account of sociomoral evaluation in preverbal infants	8
Sharing scenarios facilitate division performance in preschoolers	8
A multidimensional investigation of pretend play and language competence: Concurrent and longitudinal relations in preschoolers	8
Relating a picture and 1000 words: Self-derivation through integration within and across presentation formats	8
Fantasy orientation and creativity in childhood: A closer look	8
Expressions of shyness and theory of mind in children: A psychophysiological study	8
Is a robot a boy? Japanese children’s and adults’ gender-attribute bias toward robots and its implications for education on gender stereotypes	8
Age-related changes in the impact of valence on self-referential processing in female adolescents and young adults	8
The relation between drawing and language in preschoolers: The role of working Memory and executive functions	7
Numerical estimation strategies are correlated with math ability in school-aged children	7
Selective and divided attention modulates audiovisual integration in adolescents	7
Spatial language and mental transformation in preschoolers: Does relational reasoning matter?	7
Rhythm discrimination and metronome tapping in 4-year-old children at risk for developmental dyslexia	7
Evaluating and communicating about the healthiness of foods: Predictors of parents’ judgments and parent-child conversations	7
The moderating effect of bilingualism on lifespan cognitive development	7
Young children show positive emotions when seeing someone get the help they deserve	7
Children approve of lying to benefit another person’s reputation	7
Contributions of working memory and sustained attention to children’s reading achievement: A commonality analysis approach	7
The development of inequity aversion in Chinese children	7
“Wow, I did it!”: Unexpected success increases preschoolers’ exploratory play on a later task	6
The effect of taxing situations on preschool children’s responses to peer conflict	6
Multiplication facts and number sense in children with mathematics learning disabilities and typical achievers	6
Capturing death in animated films: Can films stimulate parent-child conversations about death?	6
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	6
Shared-reading in small groups: Examining the effects of question demand level and placement	6
What I know and what you know: The role of metacognitive strategies in preschoolers’ selective social learning	6
Puppet studies present clear and distinct windows into the child’s mind	6

Spatial exploration strategies in childhood; exploration behaviours are predictive of navigation success	6
Cognitive flexibility and strategy training allow young children to overcome transfer-Utilization Deficiencies	6
Developmental differences in monitoring accuracy and cue use when estimating whole-number and fraction magnitudes	6
Underpinning prosociality: Age related performance in theory of mind, empathic understanding, and moral reasoning	6
Exploring the impact of parental education, ethnicity and context on parent and child mental-state language	6
The interplay between spatial ordinal knowledge, linearity of number-space mapping, and arithmetic skills	6
Nationality cognition in India: Social category information impacts children’s judgments of people and their national identity	6
Children’s experience of economic inequality: How earning position influences prosocial behavior	6
Parental mental-state talk and false belief understanding in Hong Kong children	6
Bidirectional associations among executive functions, visual-spatial skills, and mathematical achievement in primary school students: Insights from a longitudinal study	6
Hot and cool executive function and body mass index in young children	5
A time for a meal? Children’s conceptions of short-term and long-term effects of foods	5
Social information reduces infants’ avoidance of plants	5
Executive function and the development of social information processing during the preschool years	5
Have your cake, and your asparagus, too: Young children expect variety-seeking behavior from agents with diverse desires	5
The effect of episodic future simulation and motivation on young children’s induced-state episodic foresight	5
Preschool children’s private speech content and performance on executive functioning and problem-solving tasks	5
Long-term relevance and interrelation of symbolic and non-symbolic abilities in mathematical-numerical development: Evidence from large-scale assessment data	5
Inequity aversion in old age: An outcome bias in older adults’ socio-economic decisions	5
Developmental changes in understanding emotion in speech in children in Japan and the United States	5
The beginnings of tool innovation in human ontogeny: How three- to five-year-olds solve the vertical and horizontal tube task	5
Exploring how visual attention, inhibitory control, and co-speech gesture instruction contribute to children’s analogical reasoning ability	5
Don’t forget your lunch: Age and individual differences in how children perform everyday tasks	5
Can God do the impossible? Anthropomorphism and children’s certainty that God can make impossible things possible	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
Developmental changes in children’s recognition of the relevance of evidence to causal explanations	5
The Domain Frequency Association: A mental shortcut to guide children’s generalization of norms and preferences	5
OMG GMO! Parent-child conversations about genetically modified foods	5
The development of handwriting speed and its relationship with graphic speed and spelling	5
False belief understanding and narrative comprehension in the preschool years	5
The utility of diagrams in elementary problem solving	5
Unconventional tool use in infants: Using a familiar tool in a novel way in the second year of life	5
The influence of first language spelling and response inhibition skills on English-as-an-additional-language spelling	5
Does English orthography influence bilingual Spanish readers? The effect of grapheme crosslinguistic congruency and complexity on letter detection	5
The time window for sense of agency in school-age children is different from that in young adults	5
Mapping between number notations in kindergarten and the role of home numeracy	5
Young children’s understanding of justifications for breaking a promise	5
Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters	5
Chinese kindergarteners skilled in mental abacus have advantages in spatial processing and attention	5
Interactional training interventions boost children’s expressive pragmatic abilities: evidence from a novel multidimensional testing approach	5
Coding of featural information in visual working memory in 2.5-year-old toddlers	5
Does accent trump skin color in guiding children’s social preferences? Evidence from Brazil’s natural lab	4
The development of cognitive functioning indices in early childhood	4
The impact of informant type on children's animal knowledge learning	4
Discontinuity from implicit to explicit theory of mind from infancy to preschool age	4
Early understanding of ownership helps infants efficiently organize objects in memory	4
Grown or made? Children’s determination of the origins of natural versus processed foods	4
Children’s and adults’ beliefs about the stability of traits from infancy to adulthood: Contributions of age and executive function	4
American heterosexual emerging adults’ reasoning about the fairness of household labor	4
A critical review of number order judgements and arithmetic: What do order verification tasks actually measure?	4
Pretending at hand: How children perceive and process puppets	4
The sequence of acquisition for theory of mind concepts: The combined effect of both cultural and environmental factors	4
Age difference in the forward testing effect: The roles of strategy change and release from proactive interference	4
A longitudinal reciprocal relation between theory of mind and language	4
Bilingualism and the executive function advantage in preterm-born children	4
Theory of mind understanding, but whose mind? Affiliation with the target is related to children’s false belief performance	4
Parent and child spontaneous focus on number, mathematical abilities, and mathematical talk during play activities	4
Counting promotes proportional moral evaluation in preschool-aged children	4
Working memory capacity, variability, and response to intervention at age 6 and its association to inattention and mathematics age 9	4
Flexible retrieval of semantic knowledge predicts temporal memory, but not memory for other types of context, in 4-6-year-olds	4
Perceiving size through sound in sighted and visually impaired children	4
Executive functioning profiles in adolescence: Using person-centered approaches to understand heterogeneity	4
The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play	4
Effects of group membership and visual access on children’s selective trust in competitive and non-competitive contexts	4
Interactive elaborative storytelling fosters vocabulary in pre-schoolers compared to repeated-reading and phonemic awareness interventions	4
From foods to artifacts: Children’s evaluative and taxonomic categorization across multiple domains	4
Sex differences in response inhibition in young children	4
Primary school children’s verbal working memory performances in classrooms with different acoustic conditions	4
Theory of mind and executive function in early childhood: A cross-cultural investigation	4
Cultural affordances: Does model reliability affect over-imitation in preschoolers	4
How do working memory and inhibition contribute to the SNARC effect in Chinese school-aged children?	4
The predictive value of the cognitive scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-III	4
Sociodramatic play enhances preschoolers’ private speech and motivation across activities	3
Children’s attributions of knowledge and trustworthiness to persons with disabilities	3
Is secondhand information better read or said? Factors influencing children’s endorsements of text-based information	3
A Micro-Analytic Approach to Parent-Child Reminiscing	3
An investigation of word learning in the presence of gaze: Evidence from school-age children with typical development or Autism Spectrum Disorder	3
Parental mental state talk in two contexts: Parents’ cognitive sentential complements are positively associated with children’s theory of mind	3
Individual differences in children’s anthropomorphic tendencies to their special objects	3

Not for kids: 2nd grade school children require more practice than adults to attain long-term gains in a graphomotor task	3
Generalizing solutions across functionally similar problems correlates with world knowledge and working memory in 2.5- to 4.5-year-olds	3
Role of manually-generated visual cues in crawling and non-crawling 9-month-old infants’ mental rotation	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
Is cultural variation the norm? A closer look at sequencing of the theory of mind scale	3
Perceptual Access Reasoning: What are the alternatives?	3
Contingent experience with touchscreens promotes parent-child conversations	3
Children’s prediction of others’ behavior based on group vs. individual properties	3
Likely stories: Young children favor typical over atypical story events	3
Young children selectively adopt sharing norms according to norm content and donor age	3
Children consider a speaker’s information privilege and engage in adaptive selective trust in referential cues	3
Foundations for early mathematics skills: The interplay of approximate number system, mapping ability, and home numeracy activities	3
Examining relations between parent-child narrative talk and children’s episodic foresight and theory of mind	3
How origin stories shape children’s social reasoning	3
Preschoolers can be instructed to use proactive control	3
Cheat to win: Children’s judgements of advantageous vs. disadvantageous rule breaking	3
Children show economic trust for both ingroup and outgroup partners	3
Mental imagery and visual working memory abilities appear to be unrelated in childhood: Evidence for individual differences in strategy use	3
“I can’t remember!” Three-year-olds struggle to strategically access encoded and consolidated memories	3
The relations among navigation, object analysis, and magnitude perception in children: Evidence for a network of Euclidean geometry	3
The role of parent-led and child-led home numeracy activities in early mathematical skills	3
Preschoolers represent others’ false beliefs about emotions	3
Understanding mathematical development in preschool children: The association between mathematical language and mathematical abilities	3
Prerequisite skills in cognitive testing: Innovations in theory and recommendations for practice	3
‘If-then’ but when? Effects of implementation intentions on children’s and adolescents’ prospective memory	3
Concurrent predictors of science core knowledge in preschool	3
Are the acuities of magnitude representations of different types and ranges of numbers related? Testing the core assumption of the integrated theory of numerical development	3
Sequential modulations of executive control processes throughout lifespan in numerosity comparison	3
What does the Strange Stories test measure? Developmental and within-test variation	3
Do children know that fantastic events in television programs are not real?	3
Spatial abilities in Down syndrome: Characterising the profile of spatial skills and models of spatial development	3
Quitting rules in hybrid foraging search: From early childhood to early adulthood	3
Small procedural differences matter: Conceptual and direct replication attempts of the communication-intervention effect on infants’ false-belief ascriptions	3
What is a good question asker better at? From unsystematic generalization to adult-like selectivity across childhood	3
Children’s developing reflections on and understanding of creativity	3
Associations between maternal behavior, infant joint attention, and social vulnerability	3
Young children’s understanding of ordinal and spatial labels	3
Identifying direct and indirect influences on vocabulary development of children from low-income families from infancy to grade 5	3
The relationship between executive processing and computational growth among monolingual and english learners with and without math difficulties: Does it help to be bilingual?	2
An exploration of the structure of moral intuitions in early adolescence	2
A refined description of initial symbolic number acquisition	2
Developmental trends in children’s use of different monitoring processes to avoid false memories	2
Longitudinal stability and cross-relations of prosocial behavior and the moral self-concept in early childhood	2
Thinking inside the box: Mental manipulation of working memory contents in 3- to 7-year-old children	2
Theory of puppets or theory of mind? Misunderstanding how children construe puppets in psychological research: A commentary on Packer and Moreno-Dulcey (2022)	2
Caregiver-child reminiscing and recounting across contexts	2
Valence or traits? Developmental change in children’s use of facial features to make inferences about others	2
The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions	2
Young children’s capacity to seek information in preparation for a future event	2
Cognitive flexibility explains unique variance in reading comprehension for elementary students	2
Comments regarding Numerical Estimation Strategies Are Correlated with Math Ability in School-Age Children	2
The influence of parental guidance on video game performance, exploration, and cortical activity in 5-year-old children	2
The importance of schooling and parental attitudes for children’s prospective memory	2
The FORAGEKID Game: Hybrid-Foraging as a new way to study aspects of executive function in development	2
Go if you know: Preschool children’s movements reflect their metacognitive monitoring	2
Emotion words in early childhood: A language transcript analysis	2
What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet	2
Conceptualizing values abstractly: Longitudinal development and the role of concept formation and working memory	2
When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations	2
Mediators of the associations between family income during adolescence and adult long-term memory and working memory	2
Transgression of cooperative helping norms outweighs children’s intergroup bias	2
The role of object features and emotional attachment on preschool children’s anthropomorphism of owned objects	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
Varieties of value: Children differentiate caring from liking	2
Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter?	2
Group creativity in children and adolescents	2
Ownership as privileged utility	2
The influence of bilingualism on adolescent cognition: The roles of biculturalism, the bilingual profile, and linguistic similarity	2
The effects of improvements of sleep disturbances throughout kindergarten on executive function: A latent change score analysis	2
Could sensitivity to object authenticity be developmentally delayed in autism?	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
Usage-based approaches to child code-switching: State of the art and ways forward	2
Preschoolers’ acquisition of producer-product metonymy	2
Children's comprehension of narrative texts: Protagonists’ goals and mental representation of coherence relations	2
Self-regulation as promotive for academic achievement in young children across risk contexts	2
Cup! Cup? Cup: Comprehension of intentional prosody in adults and children	2
Children’s food cognition: Introduction to the special issue	2
Remembering the future: Age-related differences in schoolchildren’s prospective memory depend on the cognitive resources employed by the task	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
To copy or not to copy: A comparison of selective trust and overimitation in young children	2
The preschooler’s moral self and executive functions: An experimental approach with exclusion	2
Children’s group loyalty is related to parental in-group collectivism	2
Dynamic variation in receptive vocabulary acquisitions: Further evidence from the Young Lives study	2
Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach	2
Children’s understanding of relational language for quantity comparisons	2
How self-other control determines individual differences in adolescents’ theory of mind	2
Residual effects of cannabis-use on neuropsychological functioning	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
Promoting future-oriented thought in an academic context	2