Benefits of Active Control of the Study Experience and Implications for Educational SettingsAbstract.Background: The concept of active learning has played a crucial role in education and continues to inform a wide ...
The Significance of Fetal and Neonatal Spontaneous Movements for Development and Early Identification of Developmental DisordersAbstract.Theoretical Background: The human neonate presents a continuum of motor patterns extending ...
Teaching mathematical and linguistic skills to students with intellectual disabilityAbstract. This article provides an overview of the current state of research on cognitive development as well as mathematical and linguistic ...
Abstract. Recent studies have ascertained a link between the motor system and imagery in children. A motor effect on imagery is demonstrated by the influence of stimuli-related movement constraints (i. e., constraints defined by the musculoskeletal system)...
Long-Term Consequences of Preterm Birth on Cognitive Development and Academic Achievement: Is There a Protective Effect of Maternal Responsiveness?Abstract. Preterm birth is associated with adverse long-term ...
Abstract. This study investigated the empirical differentiation of prospective memory, executive functions, and metacognition and their structural relationships in 119 elementary school children (M = 95 months, SD = 4.8 months). These cognitive abilities ...
Kinder mit frühen Schlaganfällen weisen vielfältige Entwicklungsprobleme und kognitive Beeinträchtigungen auf. In der Vorhersage von kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen erweisen sich das Alter zum Zeitpunkt des Schlaganfalls (perinatale vs. frühkindlich) sowie ...
Das Ziel der längsschnittlich angelegten Studie besteht darin, frühe Einflussfaktoren auf die numerische Entwicklung im Alter von sechs Jahren ausfindig zu machen. Hierzu werden kognitive Faktoren (Intelligenz, Arbeitsgedächtnis, Abruf von Informationen ...
Development of manual dexterity, executive functions, and scholastic achievement in children at risk for developmental coordination disordersThe present 3-year-longitudinal study investigated manual dexterity, executive functions, and scholastic ...
Short- and long-term effects of day care during early childhood on cognitive and language development with special reference to day care qualityThis paper provides an overview of the current state of research on the short- and long-term effects of early ...
Previous research on the development of intuitive statics has revealed that preschoolers’ ability to judge the stability of asymmetrically shaped objects is severely limited (Krist, 2010). To overrule the objection that this limitation is caused by ...
KOPKI 4-6: Presentation and first validation of a parent questionnaire on cognitive processing in children aged 4 to 6 yearsAbstract. The questionnaire KOPKI 4-6 assesses cognitive processes in children aged 4 to 6 by parent ratings of the cognitive ...
Early diagnosisAbstract. This special issue presents papers on the current discussion about approaches of early diagnosis of motor, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. The focus is on the assessment of developmental risks during the first three ...
Imitation by infants during the first 2 years of lifeAbstract. Imitation is an important cognitive and social cognitive ability in early childhood. In the last two decades infancy research has focused mainly on the study of deferred imitation as a ...
Zusammenfassung. Ausgehend von neueren Forschungsergebnissen, die auf Basiskompetenzen wissenschaftlichen Denkens schon im Grundschulalter hinweisen, stellen wir ein dreistufiges Entwicklungsmodell (natur)wissenschaftlicher Kompetenz vor, das einen ...
This study investigated the influence of egocentric and allocentric viewpoints on a comparison task of length estimation in children and adults. A total of 100 participants ranging in age from 5 years to adulthood were presented with virtual scenes ...
A new test on map understanding for preschool and elementary-school children was constructed based on a Piagetian framework of the development of spatial ability and representational understanding. Results from a study with 95 3- to 6-year-old children ...
Children’s conceptions about illness: A research reviewAbstract. This review reports the state of research on the development of children’s and adolescent’s illness representations. The review begins with an overview about theoretical approaches used as ...
Changing environmental context during encoding can influence episodic memory. This study examined the memorial consequences of environmental context change in children. Kindergartners, first and fourth graders, and young adults studied two lists of items, ...
Zusammenfassung. In einem Reaktionszeitexperiment zur mentalen Rotation von Händen, an dem 138 Kindergartenkinder, 82 Grundschüler (2. Klassenstufe) und 82 Erwachsene teilnahmen, konnte ein Einfluss der motorischen Einschränkung von Handbewegungen auf die ...Integration of imagery and motor processes in development: Mental transformation with pictures of handsAbstract. In a mental rotation experiment, 138 kindergarden children, 82 pupils (second grade), and 82 adults were tested using pictures of hands as ...