Children's evolved learning abilities and their implications for education

DF Bjorklund - Educational Psychology Review, 2022 - Springer
In this article, I examine children's evolved learning mechanisms that make humans the most
educable of animals. These include (1) skeletal perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that …

Developmental changes in exploration resemble stochastic optimization

AP Giron, S Ciranka, E Schulz, W van den Bos… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
Human development is often described as a 'cooling off'process, analogous to stochastic
optimization algorithms that implement a gradual reduction in randomness over time. Yet …

Why doesn't executive function training improve academic achievement? Rethinking individual differences, relevance, and engagement from a contextual framework

JC Niebaum, Y Munakata - Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Performance on lab assessments of executive functions predicts academic achievement and
other positive life outcomes. A primary goal of research on executive functions has been to …

Incorporating intersectionality in neuropsychology: Moving the discipline forward

DEM Fujii - Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Objective Intersectionality is the interface between a person's identities in relation to social
systems and institutional discrimination. The concept has generated much interest in …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging the science of early life predictability to inform policies promoting child health

LM Glynn, SR Liu, CT Lucas, EP Davis - Developmental Cognitive …, 2024 - Elsevier
Addressing the tremendous burden of early-life adversity requires constructive dialogues
between scientists and policy makers to improve population health. Whereas dialogues …

Early life adversity jointly regulates body-mass index and working memory development

BC Farkas, PO Jacquet - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Previous work has proposed that balancing energy expenditure towards body and brain
development in an optimal fashion results in a negative relationship between somatic and …

Parental socioeconomic status weakly predicts specific cognitive and academic skills beyond general cognitive ability

G Bignardi, S Mareva, DE Astle - Developmental Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Parental socioeconomic status (SES) is a well‐established predictor of children's
neurocognitive development. Several theories propose that specific cognitive skills are …

[图书][B] The hidden talents framework: Implications for science, policy, and practice

BJ Ellis, LS Abrams, AS Masten, RJ Sternberg… - 2023 - cambridge.org
Although early-life adversity can undermine healthy development, an evolutionary-
developmental perspective implies that children growing up in harsh environments will …

Poor maternal mental health is associated with a low degree of proactive control in refugee children

G Gredebäck, M Lindskog… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study assesses the development of proactive control strategies in 100 Syrian refugee
families (394 individuals) with 6-to 18-year-old children currently living in Turkish …

[HTML][HTML] The promise and pitfalls of a strength-based approach to child poverty and neurocognitive development: Implications for policy

ML DeJoseph, ME Ellwood-Lowe, D Miller-Cotto… - Developmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
There has been significant progress in understanding the effects of childhood poverty on
neurocognitive development. This progress has captured the attention of policymakers and …