📣📣 A recent paper in JCD by Rondeline M. Williams & Michael C. Frank: Selection of Goal-Consistent Auditory Environments by 3–5-Year-Old Children www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Selection of Goal-Consistent Auditory Environments by 3–5-Year-Old Children
Children navigate a world full of auditory inputs that include both signal and noise, but what counts as signal vs. noise is dependent on children’s goals. We tested whether children in the United ...
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Check out this recent paper by Hannah Fender et al. in JCD: "Declarative Memory and Language in Early Childhood: A Meta-Analysis of Studies Using Deferred Imitation" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Declarative Memory and Language in Early Childhood: A Meta-Analysis of Studies Using Deferred Imitation
Several theories propose that the declarative memory system plays important roles in language development, but evidence in early childhood remains limited. This is a critical gap, since children ex...
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A recent paper by Fengling Ma et al. in JCD: "Testing a Pragmatic Account of Young Children’s Waiting in Delay of Gratification Tasks" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Testing a Pragmatic Account of Young Children’s Waiting in Delay of Gratification Tasks
Delay of gratification tasks typically offer children a choice between a smaller immediate versus a larger delayed reward, assuming waiting is motivated by maximizing material gain. However, the of...
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calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!
A recent paper by Christine E. Ha & Stacey Doan: "Authoritative Parenting and Children’s Executive Functioning: Considering Children’s Biological Sensitivity" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authoritative Parenting and Children’s Executive Functioning: Considering Children’s Biological Sensitivity
Executive functioning (EF), a set of cognitive skills, underlies goal-directed behavior and is crucial for adaptive functioning. Research demonstrates that supportive parenting facilitates the deve...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Cindy Chiang & Toben H. Mintz: "Uh, What Did You Say? Children’s Parsing Preferences are Altered by Experience with Disfluent Sentences" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Uh, What Did You Say? Children’s Parsing Preferences are Altered by Experience with Disfluent Sentences
Children can be primed to anticipate a recently heard sentence structure. This is more likely to occur when the structures of the primes are unlikely, or surprising, for a given context. The disflu...
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📣📣 A recent paper in JCD by Nicole S. Gevaux & Elizabeth S. Nilsen: "Children’s Performance and Social Behaviour During Competitive Games" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Children’s Performance and Social Behaviour During Competitive Games
Children experience competition daily, with these situations requiring children to balance goal attainment with social relationships. Increasingly, within children's spaces (e.g. schools, sports cl...
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📣📣 A recent paper in JCD by Kathryn D. Schuler et al: "6-To-8 Year-Old Children Adjust Their Linguistic Generalizations Based on Distributional Cues" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
6-To-8 Year-Old Children Adjust Their Linguistic Generalizations Based on Distributional Cues
Generalizing the syntactic privileges of words based on limited exposure is a fundamental aspect of language acquisition, but how well children can use distributional cues to guide this process is ...
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📣📣 Recently published paper by Konstantin Steinmassl and Markus Paulus: "No Evidence for Associations Among Minimal Self Facets or with Attachment in Early Childhood: A Registered Report" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
No Evidence for Associations Among Minimal Self Facets or with Attachment in Early Childhood: A Registered Report
The development of the minimal self - distinguished in the facets sense of agency, body ownership, and interoception – has recently gained attention in developmental science. While research propose...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Yujia Liu et al. in JCD: "Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization
The current study investigated early gender differences in mental rotation and navigation and the mediating role of parental gender socialization in these two types of spatial skills. A total of 12...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Kristy L. Armitage & Jonathan Redshaw in JCD: "Value-Driven Selectivity and Redundancy in Children’s Cognitive Offloading Decisions" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Value-Driven Selectivity and Redundancy in Children’s Cognitive Offloading Decisions
Cognitive offloading is often driven by an evaluation that the anticipated benefits outweigh the anticipated costs. Here, we explore the effects of benefit manipulations on children’s cognitive off...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Ryan A. Burke & Jamie J. Jirout in JCD: "Exploring Science Identities in Elementary Classrooms" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @jamiejirout.bsky.social
Exploring Science Identities in Elementary Classrooms
A student’s science identity has important implications for their persistence in science classes and success in STEM careers. Unfortunately, many marginalized students in the science field do not f...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Marie Krenger & Catherine Thevenot in JCD: "Finger Counting Is Not a Dead End: Early Finger Use as a Marker of Arithmetic Development." Results show that finger counting scaffolds the acquisition of more advanced mental arithmetic strategies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Finger Counting Is Not a Dead End: Early Finger Use as a Marker of Arithmetic Development
Finger counting is recognized as a valuable tool that supports young children in performing arithmetic tasks. However, concerns have been raised about whether this practice traps children in immatu...
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📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Gisella Decarli et al. "Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy
Infants as young as 9 months demonstrate both inhibitory control, as revealed by the Spatial Negative Priming (SNP) effect, and numerical biases, such as the Operational Momentum (OM) effect – an o...
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📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Helana Girgis et al.: "To Be or Not to Be: The Effects of Transformations on Category Membership of Foods versus Non-Foods" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
To Be or Not to Be: The Effects of Transformations on Category Membership of Foods versus Non-Foods
Categorization strategies differ based on an item’s origins, for example, those that are natural versus human-made. However, it is unclear if and how foods fit into these categories since these can...
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📣📣 A recent article by Amber D. Williams et al: "Parent Inequality Beliefs and Racial Socialization Practices: Implications for Children’s Anti-Black Biases" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Parent Inequality Beliefs and Racial Socialization Practices: Implications for Children’s Anti-Black Biases
Parents are motivated by many values and beliefs to have conversations about race with their children, and these conversations play an important role in shaping children’s attitudes and behaviors. ...
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📣📣 Here is a recent paper by Seung Heon Yoo & Heather L. Kirkorian in JCD: "Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos
One expectation of children’s educational TV programs is to help children learn and generalize world-relevant information to their everyday lives. However, a majority of children’s TV programs in t...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Kate Hill et al. in JCD: "The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @noranewcombe.bsky.social
The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall
Children’s episodic memory improves sharply between 4 and 7 years. Here, we asked whether the developing ability to impose narrative structure on events may be one reason for this change. Children ...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Silvia Zanchi et al. in JCD: Development of the Ability to Integrate Egocentric and Allocentric Coordinates in a Blindfolded Navigation Task www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Development of the Ability to Integrate Egocentric and Allocentric Coordinates in a Blindfolded Navigation Task
Spatial orientation during locomotion is a fundamental daily function that requires building mental representations of the surrounding environment. Spatial representations are based on egocentric (...
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Heading to the Cognitive Development Society meeting in Montreal? Make sure to register! Early bird registration ends on Thursday, February 19. For more information, please visit our website: cogdevsoc.org/registration/
📣📣 Here is a recent paper by Xiaoman Yu et al. in JCD: Do Bad People Deserve Prosociality? Pre-Schoolers’ Selective Evaluation of Social Mindfulness Based on the Beneficiary’s Moral Character www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Do Bad People Deserve Prosociality? Pre-Schoolers’ Selective Evaluation of Social Mindfulness Based on the Beneficiary’s Moral Character
Recent research shows that children by age 5 and 6 can evaluate socially mindful actions where one acts in a way that is considerate of another person’s freedom of choice. However, less is known as...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Emily K Farran et al. in JCD: "Deconstructing Block Building Behaviours in 7- to 9-year-olds; Associations with Spatial and Mathematics Performance" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Deconstructing Block Building Behaviours in 7- to 9-year-olds; Associations with Spatial and Mathematics Performance
Block construction performance is related to mathematics and block construction training leads to improvement in mathematics. However, block construction is a complex task, and it is unknown which ...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Ariadne Brandt et al. in JCD: "Latent Profiles of Executive Functioning Predict Adolescent Styles of Social Information Processing" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latent Profiles of Executive Functioning Predict Adolescent Styles of Social Information Processing
Social information processing (SIP) describes a cycle of cognitive/behavioral steps required to evaluate and respond in social situations. SIP, along with executive functioning (EF) and theory of m...
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The Journal of Cognition and Development, the official journal of the Cognitive Development Society, is seeking nominations for the Editor-in-Chief, with the term to begin on July 1, 2026. Application materials are due February 16. For more information, visit: cogdevsoc.org/journal/
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📣📣 A recent paper by Ruoyuan Yan et al. in JCD: "Regional Disparities in Numerical Cognition: A Comparative Study of Chinese First-Graders from East and West" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Regional Disparities in Numerical Cognition: A Comparative Study of Chinese First-Graders from East and West
This study explored regional disparities in numerical cognition among Chinese first-graders (aged 6–8 years, mean age 7 years old), comparing non-symbolic quantity and area perception abilities bet...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Erping Xiao et al. in JCD: Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses
The prosocial preferences of Chinese young children for individuals with varying wealth statuses were examined in the present study, focusing on their willingness to share, help, and cooperate with...
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A reminder: poster submissions for CDS 2026 are due by January 8, 2026. For more information, please view our website: cogdevsoc.org/submissions/
📣📣 A recent paper by Eva Michel et al. in JCD: Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children
The present longitudinal microgenetic study examines the stability of inhibitory performance in German kindergarten children within one measurement (intraindividually) and across different measurem...
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📣📣 A recent paper by Michelle A. Hurst et al. in JCD: "Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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