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Solange Denervaud; Eleonora Fornari; Xiao-Fei Yang; Patric Hagmann; Mary Helen Immordino-Yang; David Sander – npj Science of Learning, 2020
The development of error monitoring is central to learning and academic achievement. However, few studies exist on the neural correlates of children's error monitoring, and no studies have examined its susceptibility to educational influences. Pedagogical methods differ on how they teach children to learn from errors. Here, 32 students (aged 8-12…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Montessori Method, Brain
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Eberhard-Moscicka, Aleksandra K.; Jost, Lea B.; Raith, Margit; Maurer, Urs – Developmental Science, 2015
During reading acquisition children learn to recognize orthographic stimuli and link them to phonology and semantics. The present study investigated neurocognitive processes of learning to read after one year of schooling. We aimed to elucidate the cognitive processes underlying neural tuning for print that has been shown to play an important role…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Phonological Awareness, Semantics, Neurological Organization
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Frick, Andrea; Daum, Moritz M.; Walser, Simone; Mast, Fred W. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009
Previous studies with adult human participants revealed that motor activities can influence mental rotation of body parts and abstract shapes. In this study, we investigated the influence of a rotational hand movement on mental rotation performance from a developmental perspective. Children at the age of 5, 8, and 11 years and adults performed a…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Psychomotor Skills, Motion