Childhood adversity can have wide-ranging and long-lasting effects on later life. But what
are the mechanisms that are responsible for these effects? This article brings together the …

Statistical learning enables learners to extract the environmental regularities necessary to
piece together the structure of their worlds. The capacity for statistical learning and its …

Background Integrating computational thinking (CT) into STEM education has recently
drawn significant attention, strengthened by the premise that CT and STEM are mutually …

Imaginary worlds are present and often central in many of the most culturally successful
modern narrative fictions, be it in novels (eg, Harry Potter), movies (eg, Star Wars), video …

Many researchers have drawn on the term “cognitive flexibility” to denote the explanatory
mechanism underlying a broad array of organizational theories. However, conceptualization …

Despite the vital role of curiosity-driven exploration in learning, our understanding of how to
enhance children's curiosity remains limited. Here, we tested whether hearing a strategic …

Background While self‐regulated learning (SRL) strategy‐based writing instruction has
been proposed in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, there is insufficient …

Explicit recognition measures of statistical learning (SL) suggest that children and adults
have similar linguistic SL abilities. However, explicit tasks recruit additional cognitive …

Research on the development of cognitive selectivity predominantly focuses on attentional
selection. The present study explores another facet of cognitive selectivity—memory …

Children sometimes learn distracting information better than adults do, perhaps because of
the development of selective attention. To understand this potential link, we ask how the …