Federica Bulgarelli , Sophie Barry , Elika Bergelson
{"title":"Attending to talker characteristics: Word learning and recognition in monolingually- and multilingually-raised infants","authors":"Federica Bulgarelli , Sophie Barry , Elika Bergelson","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Before age one, infants often fail to recognize words produced by new talkers or in new accents. We ask whether infant’s varying experiences, namely exposure to multiple languages or accented speech, might influence this ability. Monolingually and multilingually-raised North-American 8-month-olds were habituated to a novel word-object link, and tested to see whether they would increase their looking time (i.e. dishabituate) when 1) the word-object link was broken (i.e. hearing a new word with the old object or vice versa), and 2) when the word was produced by a new talker (Exp 1) or in a new accent (Exp 2) (i.e. changes that maintain the word-object link). Monolingually- and multilingually-raised infants dishabituated to all changes, suggesting that their varying accent and language experiences do not shape word learning and recognition as tested here. This work provides further evidence that 8-month-olds’ word-object links are non-adult-like from a more diverse group of participants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142425038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children's needs-oriented decision-making: A developmental perspective","authors":"Qingfeng Peng, Mei Li, Hong Li","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101506","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101506","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fairness is a fundamental aspect of moral development, with need-based allocation representing a key form of equitable resource distribution, where resources are allocated to those with greater needs. Despite its importance, the motivational underpinnings of children's need-based allocation remain inadequately understood. In this review, we propose an explanatory model to elucidate the motivation behind children's need-based allocation. We suggest that this motivation evolves through three developmental stages: the balancing tendency stage (ages 4–5), the balancing-altruistic dual-motivation stage (ages 6–7), and the altruistic tendency stage (ages 8 and above). Finally, we discuss future research directions to further explore and understand the developmental trajectory of children's fairness-related decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142326425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developmental changes in the time window for the explicit sense of agency experienced across the lifespan","authors":"Satoshi Nobusako , Yusaku Takamura , Kyohei Koge , Michihiro Osumi , Takaki Maeda , Shu Morioka","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101503","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101503","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sense of agency (SoA) is the subjective experience of individuals that they are initiators and controllers of their own actions, but it is not known how the time window for SoA changes developmentally over the lifetime. The present study examined developmental changes in the time window for SoA in school-age children (6–12 years), adolescents (16–18 years), young adults (20–25 years), adults (28–64 years), and older adults (65–83 years). The current results show that the time window for SoA is longer in young adults than in school-age children, adolescents, adults, and older adults, suggesting that young adulthood may be an important period of developmental change in the time window for SoA across the lifespan.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142320379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antonio Iniesta , Marta Rivera , Daniela Paolieri , Teresa Bajo
{"title":"Development of L1-L2 naming skills in a monolingual context: Evidence from children and adolescents","authors":"Antonio Iniesta , Marta Rivera , Daniela Paolieri , Teresa Bajo","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101492","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101492","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Adolescence is marked by significant developmental changes that can influence language processing and control. This study aimed to uncover developmental differences in language co-activation and control in unbalanced Spanish (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals. Children and adolescents attending bilingual schools within a L1 monolingual context completed a picture-naming task including cognates and non-cognates nouns, with collection of behavioral and ERP data. The study consistently found a cognate facilitation effect (CFE) in L2, evident in enhanced accuracy, faster reaction times, and reduced N400 negativity for cognates in comparison with no-cognate nouns. However, in L1, CFE was only observed in the N400 component, indicating weaker transfer from L2 to L1. Additionally, children exhibited greater N200 negativity when naming cognates in L1, while adolescents showed no N200 modulations, suggesting differences in frontal control region involvement and potential differences in control strategies. Language co-activation appears independent of maturation, while language control depends on development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201424000777/pdfft?md5=878b3e6bde9c9e49c6dc1ad47de64ec2&pid=1-s2.0-S0885201424000777-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142241551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenwen Hou , Yi (Esther) Su , Letitia R. Naigles , Li Li , Muyu Zhou
{"title":"The shape bias in Mandarin-exposed young autistic children: The role of abstract shape representation","authors":"Wenwen Hou , Yi (Esther) Su , Letitia R. Naigles , Li Li , Muyu Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101491","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101491","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The shape bias is an important word learning strategy in children’s language development. Although some studies have observed an absent or atypical shape bias in autistic children, there is no converging evidence regarding its underlying bases. Moreover, previous research has been exclusively conducted in learners of Indo-European languages, yet it is unclear whether the shape bias is a universal word learning constraint across languages. This study aims to investigate the shape bias and its association with shape representation ability in 40 1–3-year-old non-autistic children, and 41 2–6-year-old autistic children, exposed to Mandarin Chinese. The results suggested that Mandarin-exposed non-autistic children exhibited a shape bias, while autistic children did not. Further, a positive correlation was found between the shape representation accuracy and shape bias performance in the autistic group. These findings provide cross-linguistic evidence for the shape bias as a word learning constraint in non-autistic toddlers but challenges in utilizing this constraint in word learning by young autistic children. Importantly, these results shed new light on the critical role of abstract representations of object shape in facilitating shape bias knowledge in autistic children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142241550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “How many?” task inadequately assesses the understanding of the cardinality principle","authors":"Catherine Thevenot, Marie Krenger","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101500","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101500","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Once children have acquired the cardinality principle, they understand that the last number-word used in counting represents the total number of objects in a set. This principle is often assessed using the <em>“How many?”</em> task, which consists in asking “How many?” objects there are in a set after children have counted them. However, we show in this study that out of 188 kindergarteners (mean age: 4 ½ years), 42 (22,3 %) succeeded in repeating the last count word in the <em>“How many?”</em> task but failed to correctly apply the one-to-one correspondence principle during counting. Even when only the easiest countable sets were considered (i.e., linear and homogeneous collections or sets with a very limited number of objects), still more than 10 % of children from our sample repeated the last count word but failed to apply the one-to-one correspondence principle. Such developmental profile, in which children understand that the last word used in counting represents the total number of objects in a set but fail to grasp that each individual object must be associated with a single number word to determine this total, is not psychologically plausible. We conclude that the <em>“How many?”</em> task leads to an inaccurate assessment of the cardinality principle, in both its basic and more meaningful conception, in a non-negligible number of young children.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201424000856/pdfft?md5=07734e18e2d6021099b4a13ce4141d72&pid=1-s2.0-S0885201424000856-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142241549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children’s perceptions of intergroup similarity and dissimilarity and their association with attitudes towards a conflict out-group","authors":"Meytal Nasie , Shiri Stanescu","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101499","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101499","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Children’s perceptions of similarity and dissimilarity between in- and out-groups and their associations with intergroup attitudes were examined. Using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, 5- and 8-year-old Jewish-Israeli children (<em>N</em> = 100, 48 % girls) were investigated. They were asked about Arabs (which are considered a conflict out-group). Specifically, they were asked whether a Jewish girl/boy and an Arab girl/boy are similar or dissimilar and in what way. They were also asked about their attitudes towards Arabs. In general, children reported more intergroup dissimilarities than similarities between Jews and Arabs. Children’s perceptions revealed that they considered three types of properties as fundamental for intergroup (dis)similarity: appearance, psychological characteristics, and social identity. The results indicate that children form intergroup dissimilarity perceptions at an early age, but only at about 8 years of age do these perceptions become associated with negative attitudes towards the out-group. These findings highlight the importance of promoting early awareness of similarities between groups to mitigate the development of negative attitudes as children grow older.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142241548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inquiry and argumentation skill development work in conjunction","authors":"Si Xiao, Deanna Kuhn","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101464","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The argument and inquiry families of scientific thinking skills overlap. Yet they rarely are investigated together, with researchers instead focusing on one or the other. Here we hypothesize that inclusion of an additional intervention focused on inquiry will enhance the outcome of an established intervention known to be successful in developing argument skills, compared to the argument intervention alone. An Argument only (A) and an Argument and Inquiry (A&I) group of young adolescents participated in one or the other of these intensive intervention groups for four hours daily over a two-week period. Both groups made progress in argument skills as expected, but the A&I group showed greater gains in use of evidence to support claims, stronger forms of counterargument, and integrative <em>however</em> arguments that connect opposing claims to one another. The A&I group showed a particular advantage in reconciling contrasting claims, an epistemological understanding that lies at the core of scientific thinking. These findings suggest the value of conceptualizing argument skill development in a broader framework that includes an investigative component as well as the skill of coordinating claims and evidence that is fundamental to argument.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141485097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carole Peterson , Qi Wang , Darcy Hallett , Sophie Bartlett , Amanda Y.F. Ma , Melissa M. MacKay , Emma J. Pretty , Luciana Viscarra , Elaine Y. Wang
{"title":"Dating early memories: When did events really happen?","authors":"Carole Peterson , Qi Wang , Darcy Hallett , Sophie Bartlett , Amanda Y.F. Ma , Melissa M. MacKay , Emma J. Pretty , Luciana Viscarra , Elaine Y. Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101489","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101489","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Can children accurately date their early memories? This question has important real-life consequences such as when jurors evaluate the credibility of child eyewitness testimony in court. Answering this question is difficult given that adults present at remembered events may be inaccurate themselves in retroactively dating the memories recalled by their children, and often cannot provide reliable validation. In this study, prior to child interviews the parents of 6- to 13-year-olds provided eight memories of events with known dates, two each from when children were age 2, 3, 4, and 5 years. A total of 104 6- to 13-year-olds participated (47 % female, 70 % White and 26 % Asian or multi-ethnic), recruited from Canada (36 %) and USA (64 %). Children typically made systematic dating errors. Memories of events that had occurred when children had been age 2 were misdated by 1½ years on average, and as children’s age at the time of remembered events increased, misdating errors decreased. Errors usually involved children thinking they had been older at the time of remembered events than they actually were – a phenomenon termed ‘forward telescoping’ (versus ‘backward telescoping, when individuals think that they had been older at the time of remembered events than they actually had been). For example, many of the events from when children were age 2 were recalled by the children, but they misdated them to older ages. Although ‘age of memory’ (age of the child at the time of the remembered event) was significantly related to errors in dating, with more errors for memories from younger periods of their lives, ‘age of child’ at the time they did the memory task did not differ depending upon how old the children were. Findings have theoretical and forensic implications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201424000741/pdfft?md5=937432cd47a9c31986716e10d60efb5f&pid=1-s2.0-S0885201424000741-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142039608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does reading fluency mediate the relationship between cognitive-linguistic skills and reading comprehension? A study in European Portuguese","authors":"Irene Cadime , Tânia Freitas , María Teresa Martín-Aragoneses , Iolanda Ribeiro","doi":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101490","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101490","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research has consistently revealed the existence of an interconnection between reading comprehension, word reading, reading fluency, vocabulary and rapid naming. The main goal of this study was to explore the possible mediating role of reading fluency in the relationship between reading comprehension and the remaining skills, and to test whether the magnitude of these relationships was similar across different years of schooling. For this purpose, a longitudinal study with two assessment time points was carried out in a sample of 2nd and 3rd graders who were learning to read in European Portuguese, an intermediate-depth orthography. The results evidenced that reading fluency not only directly influences reading comprehension but also plays a mediating role in the relationship between reading comprehension and skills such as word reading and rapid naming. On other hand, the results indicate a unique effect of vocabulary on reading comprehension. Taken together, these results have important implications for educational practice, suggesting that explicit intervention in reading should include both the teaching and training in reading fluency and the construction of a richer lexical repertoire.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51422,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885201424000753/pdfft?md5=41b713bb3cee8cafd1b5d57a04c56b5c&pid=1-s2.0-S0885201424000753-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142084357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}