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Maternal scaffolding during play with 12- to 24-month-old infants
Abstract: There is evidence that parents could influence the development of their children’s effortful control in infancy through social interaction. Playful interactions in infancy often involve scaffolding - i.e. the parental...
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Is mere exposure enough? The effects of bilingual environments on infant cognitive development.
Bilinguals purportedly outperform monolinguals in non-verbal tasks of cognitive control (the 'bilingual advantage'). The most common explanation is that managing two languages during language production constantly draws upon...
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Preventing a Thought from Coming to Mind Elicits Increased Right Frontal Beta Just as Stopping Action Does.
In the stop-signal task, an electrophysiological signature of action-stopping is increased early right frontal beta band power for successful vs. failed stop trials. Here we tested whether the requirement to stop an unwanted...
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Inhibitory control and problem solving in early childhood
Low inhibitory control (IC) is sometimes associated with enhanced problem-solving amongst adults, yet for young children high IC is primarily framed as inherently better than low IC. Here, we explore associations between IC and...
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Is mere exposure enough? The effects of bilingual environments on infant cognitive development.
Bilinguals purportedly outperform monolinguals in non-verbal tasks of cognitive control (the 'bilingual advantage'). The most common explanation is that managing two languages during language production constantly draws upon...
Relations between theory of mind and executive function in middle childhood
Studies with preschool children have shown significant links between children's executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM), but few studies have examined these associations in primary school children. To address this gap...
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Children's sympathy moderates the link between their attentional orientation and ethical guilt.
This study examined how children's attentional orientation towards environmental cues, dispositional sympathy and inhibitory control were associated with their ethical guilt. Participants were 4- and 6-year-old children...
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Multimodal semantic revision during inferential processing
Although language comprehension usually requires multimodal information, no study to date has investigated how comprehenders deal with the revision of a text's interpretation when different modalities are involved. Twenty-four...
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Parallel Regulation of Memory and Emotion Supports the Suppression of Intrusive Memories.
Intrusive memories often take the form of distressing images that emerge into a person's awareness, unbidden. A fundamental goal of clinical neuroscience is to understand the mechanisms allowing people to control these memory...
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Active Forgetting
Over the past century, psychologists have discussed whether forgetting might arise from active mechanisms that promote memory loss to achieve various functions, such as minimizing errors, facilitating learning, or regulating...
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