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Knowing a Lot for One's Age: Vocabulary Skill and Not Age Is Associated with Anticipatory Incremental Sentence Interpretation in Children and Adults
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Borovsky, Arielle; Elman, Jeffrey L.; Fernald, Anne – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Adults can incrementally combine information from speech with astonishing speed to anticipate future words. Concurrently, a growing body of work suggests that vocabulary ability is crucially related to lexical processing skills in children. However, little is known about this relationship with predictive sentence processing in children or adults.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Adults, Language Processing, Vocabulary Skills
The Development of Fine-Grained Sensitivity to Eye Contact after 6 Years of Age
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Vida, Mark D.; Maurer, Daphne – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Adults use eye contact as a cue to the mental and emotional states of others. Here, we examined developmental changes in the ability to discriminate between eye contact and averted gaze. Children (6-, 8-, 10-, and 14-year-olds) and adults (n=18/age) viewed photographs of a model fixating the center of a camera lens and a series of positions to the…
Descriptors: Photography, Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Children
The Development of Visual Short-Term Memory for Multifeature Items during Middle childhood
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Riggs, Kevin J.; Simpson, Andrew; Potts, Thomas – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Visual short-term memory (VSTM) research suggests that the adult capacity is limited to three or four multifeature object representations. Despite evidence supporting a developmental increase in capacity, it remains unclear what the unit of capacity is in children. The current study employed the change detection paradigm to investigate both the…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Memorization
A New Measure for Assessing Executive Function across a Wide Age Range: Children and Adults Find "Happy-Sad" More Difficult than "Day-Night"
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Sayfan, Liat; Monsour, Michael – Developmental Science, 2011
Two experiments examined 4- to 11-year-olds' and adults' performance (N = 350) on two variants of a Stroop-like card task: the "day-night task" (say "day" when shown a moon and "night" when shown a sun) and a new "happy-sad task" (say "happy" for a sad face and "sad" for a happy face). Experiment 1 featured colored cartoon drawings. In Experiment…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Memory, Age Differences, Children
When Children Learn More than What They Are Taught: Regularization in Child and Adult Learners
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Austin, Alison C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
When linguistic input provides inconsistent evidence for grammatical structures, children tend to regularize. For example, children learning languages from parents who are imperfect users of the language regularize their parents' inconsistent usages (Singleton & Newport, 2004). Previous studies (Hudson Kam & Newport, 2005, 2009) have examined this…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Franz Rosenzweig and the Elementary School Teacher: A Midrashic Re-Viewing of an Experiment in Adult Education
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Pomson, Alex – Journal of Jewish Education, 2005
This article proposes to read events of the educational past not as history but as midrash. It juxtaposes an historical account of a watershed experiment in adult education (Franz Rosenzweig's Freie Judisches Lehrhaus) with an ethnographic account of a presently practicing elementary school teacher. These accounts are generically different and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Experiments, Religious Education