The ability to prepare for mutually exclusive possible events in the future is essential for
everyday decision making. Previous studies have suggested that this ability develops …

The ability to use knowledge to guide the completion of goals is a critical cognitive skill, but 3‐
year‐olds struggle to complete goals that require multiple steps. This study asked whether 3 …

Memory-guided planning involves retrieving relevant memories and applying that
information in service of a goal. Previous studies have shown substantial development in …

Two experiments examined the development of the ability to encode, maintain, and update
integrated representations of occluded objects' locations and featural identities in working …

Although the capacity to remember spatial and temporal information may develop at different
rates throughout childhood, its early development has rarely been examined within the …

Grit is known to be effective for long-term academic and social success. However, few
studies have focused on the role of grit in parenting and its effect on the development of grit …

Spatial reconstruction, a method for evaluating how individuals remember the placement of
objects, has traditionally been evaluated through the aggregate estimation of placement …

The development of children's future-oriented cognition has become a popular research
topic in the past two decades. Much of this research focuses on the preschool and middle …

How do children think about and plan for possible outcomes of events that could happen in
the future? Previous work that has investigated children's ability to think about mutually …

Item recognition and temporal order memory follow different developmental trajectories
during middle childhood, with item recognition performance stabilizing and temporal order …