The representation of emotion knowledge across development

K Woodard, M Zettersten, SD Pollak - Child development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The present study examined how children spontaneously represent facial cues associated
with emotion. 106 three‐to six‐year‐old children (48 male, 58 female; 9.4% Asian, 84.0 …

When time shifts the boundaries: Isolating the role of forgetting in children's changing category representations

ML Knabe, CC Schonberg, HA Vlach - Journal of Memory and Language, 2023 - Elsevier
In studies of children's categorization, researchers have typically studied how encoding
characteristics of exemplars contribute to children's generalization. However, it is unclear …

Rational number conceptualization predicts mathematics achievement: Quantity matters

S Park, AG Esposito - Cognitive Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge integration is a crucial part of learning as concepts are built over time
and modality. In mathematics, rational numbers are a particularly difficult concept that …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental refinements to neural attentional state during semantic memory retrieval through adolescence

S Vijayarajah, ML Schlichting - Cortex, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the fact that attention undergoes protracted development, little is known about how it
may support memory refinements in childhood and adolescence. Here, we asked whether …

Research at a distance: replicating semantic differentiation effects using remote data collection with children participants

C Vales, C Wu, J Torrance, H Shannon… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Remote data collection procedures can strengthen developmental science by addressing
current limitations to in-person data collection and helping recruit more diverse and larger …

Experience and maturation: The contribution of co‐occurrence regularities in language to the development of semantic organization

O Savic, L Unger, VM Sloutsky - Child development, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With development knowledge becomes organized according to semantic links, including
early‐developing associative (eg, juicy–apple) and gradually developing taxonomic links …

Experience‐driven semantic differentiation: Effects of a naturalistic experience on within‐and across‐domain differentiation in children

C Vales, SL States, AV Fisher - Child development, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organized semantic networks reflecting distinctions within and across domains of
knowledge are critical for higher‐level cognition. Thus, understanding how semantic …

[HTML][HTML] Lumping and splitting: Developmental changes in the structure of children's semantic networks

C Vales, P Stevens, AV Fisher - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Organized semantic representations encoding across-and within-domain distinctions are a
hallmark of mature cognition, and understanding how they change with experience and …

Development of conceptual flexibility in intuitive biology: Effects of environment and experience

N Betz, JD Coley - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Living things can be classified in many ways, such as taxonomic similarity (lions and lynx),
or shared ecological habitat (ducks and turtles). The present studies used card-sorting and …

Strengthening Developmental Science With Psychometric Evaluations: An Examination of the Spatial Arrangement Method as a Measure of Semantic Structure in …

C Vales, Z Branson, AV Fisher - Infant and Child Development, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive tasks are seldom evaluated on their ability to provide valid and reliable
measurements of the construct they intend to measure. This scarcity of psychometric …