Previous studies have provided evidence of interference due to a language-default mode (i.e., the singular/plural opposition) in 2-year-old children when solving arithmetic problems using a traditional onlooker method. However, an action-based method ...

Mimicry and prosocial feelings are generally thought to be positively related. However, the conditions under which mimicry and liking are related largely remain unspecified. We advance this specification by examining the relationship between mimicry and ...

Human beings’ ability to envisage the future has been recently assumed to rely on the reconstructive nature of episodic memory (). In the present research, young adults mentally reexperienced and preexperienced temporally close and ...

When a saccadic target is presented simultaneously with a distractor, the distractor has to be inhibited in order to successfully perform an eye movement to the target. Insufficient inhibition results in an erroneous eye movement to the distractor. This ...

In four experiments either a short or a long foreperiod preceded the presentation of one of two targets, presented either in the center of the screen (Experiment 1) or at one of two locations (Experiments 2–4). Participants were to identify the presented ...

Developmental studies indicate that children initially possess a compressed intuition of numerical distances, in which larger numbers are less discriminable than small ones. Education then “linearizes” this responding until by about age eight, children ...

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, ...

Bigger objects look heavier than smaller but otherwise identical objects. When hefted as well as seen, however, bigger objects feel lighter (the size-weight illusion), confirming that the association between visual size and weight has a perceptual ...

Various experimental tasks suggest that fear guides attention. However, because these tasks often lack ecological validity, it is unclear to what extent results from these tasks can be generalized to real-life situations. In change detection tasks, a ...

We investigated the development of the end-state comfort effect in young children. Fifty-one children from three age-groups (3, 4, and 5 years old) participated in the study. They performed the dowel placing task, which required them to reach for a ...