Article
Psychology, Developmental
Raija-Leena Punamaki, Safwat Y. Diab, Konstantinos Drosos, Samir R. Qouta, Mervi Vanska
Summary: The acoustic features of infant-directed singing (IDSi) are associated with sensorimotor, language, and socioemotional development in infants. Wide pitch variability and high vocal amplitude and vibration are related to optimal abilities in infants, while high resonance and rhythmicity formants are associated with language and vocalization skills.
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Katharina Kaletsch, Ulf Liszkowski
Summary: This study introduces a remote online paradigm for measuring infants' pointing behavior. The findings suggest that infants and caregivers spontaneously engage in pointing behavior in the online environment, and there is a relationship between parents' responses and infants' pointing frequency. Additionally, infants tend to point more to stimuli depicting faces.
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Eeva Eskola, Eeva-Leena Kataja, Jukka Hyona, Hetti Hakanen, Saara Nolvi, Tuomo Haikio, Juho Pelto, Hasse Karlsson, Linnea Karlsson, Riikka Korja
Summary: This study suggests that low maternal emotional availability is associated with higher attention to fearful faces in infants, possibly sensitizing their emotion processing system during the specific age around 8 months.
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2024)
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Tamara Fuschlberger, Eva Leitz, Friedrich Voigt, Guenter Esser, Ronald G. Schmid, Volker Mall, Anna Friedmann
Summary: This study compared developmental data of infants in Germany collected in the 1970s and in 2018, and found no significant changes in developmental percentiles over the decades. Nevertheless, the importance of periodic revision and renorming of developmental test procedures is emphasized.
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Ting Liu, Ping Zhou, Zhihong Zuo, Meng Fan, Yaoxuan Yang
Summary: This study examined the association between parenting distress and young children's social-emotional problems and competencies, finding that parent-child dysfunctional interactions mediate these associations, particularly in externalizing and dysregulation problems. Furthermore, the direct and indirect pathways differ between different groups.
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Luana Serafini, Irene Leo, Francesca Pesciarelli
Summary: Adults often struggle to recognize and differentiate individual faces from racial groups other than their own. This other-race effect originates in infancy, but our understanding of its development is incomplete. We conducted a study on 6-7 year-old children to explore the neural time course of own- and other-race face processing and found that the impact of race on face processing is temporally limited. Implicit and unconscious processing of own- and other-race faces seems to be similar in children, suggesting an immature other-race effect during childhood.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Anna -Elisabeth Baumann, Elizabeth J. Goldman, Maria-Gracia M. Cobos, Diane Poulin-Dubois
Summary: This study investigated how 3-year-old children learn from a competent robot versus an incompetent human and establish trust. The results showed that children were more likely to ask the robot for help and correctly judge its accuracy, but equally endorsed the locations pointed at by the robot and the human. This suggests that 3-year-olds are sensitive to the epistemic characteristics of the informant even when its displayed social properties are minimal.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Fiona R. Simmons, Elena Soto-Calvo, Anne-Marie Adams, Hannah N. Francis, Hannah Patel, Courtney Hartley
Summary: This study explored the associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and children's mathematics attainment in early primary school. The results showed that parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes independently predicted children's mathematics attainment, regardless of the frequency of preschool home number experiences. The study also found that the positive association between preschool home number experiences and children's mathematics attainment was not weaker in the context of high parental mathematics anxiety or negative parental mathematics attitudes.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Hui Wang, Michael J. Orosco, Anqi Peng, Haiying Long, Deborah K. Reed, H. Lee Swanson
Summary: The current study aimed to examine the effects of cognitive and reading skills on second language writing performance among Spanish-speaking children learning English. The findings revealed that the relationship between English writing performance and English cognitive and reading skills became stronger as the grades increased. However, the relationships between English writing and Spanish cognitive and reading determinants were mixed, indicating a statistically significant relationship with Spanish WM and reading skills for Grade 2 and 3 students but not with OLD across all grades.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Nadia Chernyak
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the emergence of numerically sensitive fairness in children aged 4 to 8 years. The results showed that children of all ages demonstrated numerically sensitive fairness, but older children were more likely to accept inequality in a merit context.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Peiqi Dong, Wei Li, Qiong Hu, Tianqi Wu, Yiheng Jiang, Huan Jin, Cihua Xu, Martin Buschkuehl, Susanne M. Jaeggi, Qiong Zhang
Summary: The malleability of executive function (EF) has been widely studied in recent years. This study investigates how effortful control, a temperamental trait, affects EF training outcomes in children. The results show a positive correlation between effortful control and training gain, with children with higher effortful control benefiting more from training.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Monica Gori, Alessandra Sciutti, Diego Torazza, Claudio Campus, Alice Bollini
Summary: This study examines how cross-sectioning ability emerges in young children and the influence of multisensory visuo-haptic experience in geometrical learning. The findings demonstrate that practicing novel multisensory strategies improves children's understanding of complex geometrical concepts.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Laura Lakusta, Julia Wefferling, Karima Elgamal, Barbara Landau
Summary: This study examines the cognitive differences in infants and children regarding different types of support in spatial language. The results show that children aged 2 to 3.5 years are able to map lexical verbs to mechanical support configurations.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Stephanie Wermelinger, Lea Moersdorf, Moritz M. Daum
Summary: The study found that automatic imitation in school-aged children can be measured using the imitation-inhibition task, similar to adults. Observing actions incongruent with one's own actions interferes with responses, leading to increased reaction times and error rates.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Matthew Gingo, Shiva Carter
Summary: This research examines how children assess the legitimacy of different rules and their reasoning behind covertly defying and lying to parents to resist those rules. The study found that as children grow older, their acceptance of rules decreases while acceptance of defiance and deception increases. Children also respond differently to rules in different domains, with older children justifying defiance and deception as a matter of personal autonomy and as a moral obligation to resist immoral norms.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Family Studies
Sarah Hoegler, Savannah Vetterly, E. Mark Cummings
Summary: This study evaluated a preventive intervention to reduce destructive interparental conflict and improve family relationships. The results showed that the intervention had positive effects on fathers' marital quality and attachment, but not on mothers. Furthermore, the intervention had stronger positive effects on father-adolescent attachment than on mother-adolescent attachment.
PARENTING-SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Hyun-Woong Kim, Katie E. Mclaren, Yune Sang Lee
Summary: There is an association between music and language, particularly rhythm and grammar skills in children. Exposure to regular musical rhythm can improve subsequent syntactic language performance in children. However, two experiments with English-speaking children did not find any rhythmic priming effect.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Jarkko Hautala, Stefan Hawelka, Miia Ronimus
Summary: This study explored the development of word recognition processes in Finnish students in third and fourth grades with varying reading fluency. The results showed that improvements in reading fluency were associated with decreases in first fixation and refixation durations. However, students who were able to overcome this inhibitory effect by reading with shorter fixation durations and fewer fixations developed the most in reading fluency. The results suggest that the development of reading fluency is driven by increased efficiency in representing letter strings in working memory.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Ruixue Xia, Xuerong Zhao, Yang Liu, Yan Dou, Zhenzhou Shu, Xiaohuan Ding, Xiaoqin Zhou, Jingjing Han, Xin Zhao
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the difference in selective attention efficiency between children with low and high socioeconomic status (SES) and investigate the promotional effect of attention network training on selective attention in low-SES children. The results showed that high-SES children exhibited better selective attention and switch ability compared to low-SES children. After attention network training, significant improvements were observed in selective attention, switch ability, and working memory in low-SES children.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Daniela Alvarez-Vargas, Kreshnik Nasi Begolli, Marsha Choc, Lourdes M. Acevedo-Farag, Drew H. Bailey, Lindsey Richland, Andres Bustamante
Summary: In this study, the impacts of Fraction Ball on math language production and behavior of students and teachers were assessed. The results showed that playing Fraction Ball games resulted in increased use of fraction and decimal language, as well as number line arithmetic, by both students and teachers.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
