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Vonk, Jennifer; Rastogi, Geetanjali – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
Children show a bias toward information about shape when labeling or determining category membership for novel objects. The body of work with human children suggests that the shape bias is not restricted to linguistic contexts but is highly contingent on task demands. Testing nonhumans could provide additional information about the salience of…
Descriptors: Animals, Classification, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Bias
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Pathman, Thanujeni; Larkina, Marina; Burch, Melissa M.; Bauer, Patricia J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Remembering the temporal information associated with personal past events is critical for autobiographical memory, yet we know relatively little about the development of this capacity. In the present research, we investigated temporal memory for naturally occurring personal events in 4-, 6-, and 8-year-old children. Parents recorded unique events…
Descriptors: Young Children, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology), Cognitive Ability