Importance of investing in adolescence from a developmental science perspective
This review summarizes the case for investing in adolescence as a period of rapid growth,
learning, adaptation, and formational neurobiological development. Adolescence is a …
learning, adaptation, and formational neurobiological development. Adolescence is a …
The sweet spot: When children's develo** abilities, brains, and knowledge make them better learners than adults
Cognitive development is marked by age-related improvements across a number of
domains, as young children perform worse than their older counterparts on most tasks …
domains, as young children perform worse than their older counterparts on most tasks …
Asymmetry in the complexity of same and different representations
JR Hochmann - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The abstract relations same and different constitute the main case study for investigating the
representation of abstract concepts in animals and infancy. I argue that a representation of …
representation of abstract concepts in animals and infancy. I argue that a representation of …
Transformations and transfer: Preschool children understand abstract relations and reason analogically in a causal task
Previous research suggests that preschoolers struggle with understanding abstract relations
and with reasoning by analogy. Four experiments find, in contrast, that 3‐and 4‐year‐olds …
and with reasoning by analogy. Four experiments find, in contrast, that 3‐and 4‐year‐olds …
Children's representation of abstract relations in relational/array match-to-sample tasks
Five experiments compared preschool children's performance to that of adults and of non-
human animals on match to sample tasks involving 2-item or 16-item arrays that varied …
human animals on match to sample tasks involving 2-item or 16-item arrays that varied …
Children seek help based on how others learn
Do children consider how others learned when seeking help? Across three experiments,
German children (N= 536 3‐to‐8 year olds, 49% female, majority White, tested 2017–2019) …
German children (N= 536 3‐to‐8 year olds, 49% female, majority White, tested 2017–2019) …
Context shapes early diversity in abstract thought
A Carstensen, J Zhang, GD Heyman… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Early abstract reasoning has typically been characterized by a “relational shift,” in which
children initially focus on object features but increasingly come to interpret similarity in terms …
children initially focus on object features but increasingly come to interpret similarity in terms …
Preschoolers and adults learn from novel metaphors
Although adults use metaphors to guide their thinking and reasoning, less is known about
whether metaphors might facilitate cognition earlier in development. Previous research …
whether metaphors might facilitate cognition earlier in development. Previous research …
Toddlers learn and flexibly apply multiple possibilities
The ability to consider multiple possibilities forms the basis for a wide variety of human‐
unique cognitive capacities. When does this skill develop? Previous studies have narrowly …
unique cognitive capacities. When does this skill develop? Previous studies have narrowly …
Young Children's Self-Regulated Learning Benefited from a Metacognition-Driven Science Education Intervention for Early Childhood Teachers
The two goals of this study are to examine the impact of an early childhood teacher's
metacognition-driven, place-based science teaching professional development (PD) …
metacognition-driven, place-based science teaching professional development (PD) …