This review provides an introduction to two eyetracking measures that can be used to study
cognitive development and plasticity: pupil dilation and spontaneous blink rate. We begin by …

Cognitive flexibility, the readiness with which one can selectively switch between mental
processes to generate appropriate behavioral responses, develops in a protracted manner …

Behavioral Inhibition is a temperament identified in the first years of life that enhances the
risk for development of anxiety during late childhood and adolescence. Amongst children …

Self-regulation has been intensely studied across developmental science disciplines in
virtue of its significance to understanding and fostering adaptive functioning throughout life …

The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and
has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …

This thoroughly, thoughtfully revised edition of a very successful textbook makes the
principles and the details of neural network modeling accessible to cognitive scientists of all …

As they age, children tend to get more effective at regulating their behavior in complex
situations; this improvement in cognitive control is often interpreted as a shift from …

First, executive functions are defined. Then the development of executive functions in
children, from infancy to 10–11 years of age, is briefly described. The relation between the …

Event-based prospective memory (PM) requires remembering to perform intended deferred
actions when particular stimuli or events are encountered in the future. We propose a …

Interventions including social scaffolding and metacognitive strategies have been used in
educational settings to promote cognition. In addition, increasing evidence shows that …