Humans acquire much of their knowledge from the testimony of other people. An
understanding of the way that information can be conveyed via gesture and vocalization is …

Across the lifespan, learners have to tackle the challenges of learning new skills. These
skills can range from abilities needed for survival, such as learning languages, learning to …

Executive function (EF) skills are essential for academic achievement, and poverty-related
stress interferes with their development. This pre-test, post-test, follow-up randomized …

There is a growing evidence base for mindfulness-based interventions in educational
settings. Notably, there has been little investigation of the potential benefits of classroom …

Acquiring the counterintuitive logic of how the mechanism of natural selection (NS) leads to
the evolution of new species (speciation) represents a paradigm case of conceptual change …

Children rely on others' explanations to learn scientific concepts, yet sometimes the
explanations they receive are incomplete. Three studies explore how receiving incomplete …

The longitudinal relations of family socioeconomic status (SES) to receptive vocabulary,
behavioral regulation, and four domains of academic learning (reading, math, life science …

This paper provides a theorisation of developmental conditions to support executive
functions (working memory, inhibition and shifting) in children in playworlds settings, where …

Children's imagination was traditionally seen as a wayward, desire-driven faculty that is
eventually constrained by rationality. A more recent, Romantic view claims that young …

A dominant view of knowledge acquisition is that humans acquire knowledge through a
rational process of theory construction and revision. Conceptual development in the …