Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy Infants as young as 9 months demonstrate both inhibitory control, as revealed by the Spatial Negative Priming (SNP) effect, and numerical biases, such as the Operational Momentum (OM) effect – an o...

📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Gisella Decarli et al.

"Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy"

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To Be or Not to Be: The Effects of Transformations on Category Membership of Foods versus Non-Foods Categorization strategies differ based on an item’s origins, for example, those that are natural versus human-made. However, it is unclear if and how foods fit into these categories since these can...

📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Helana Girgis et al.:

"To Be or Not to Be: The Effects of Transformations on Category Membership of Foods versus Non-Foods"

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Parent Inequality Beliefs and Racial Socialization Practices: Implications for Children’s Anti-Black Biases Parents are motivated by many values and beliefs to have conversations about race with their children, and these conversations play an important role in shaping children’s attitudes and behaviors. ...

📣📣 A recent article by Amber D. Williams et al:

"Parent Inequality Beliefs and Racial Socialization Practices: Implications for Children’s Anti-Black Biases"

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Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos One expectation of children’s educational TV programs is to help children learn and generalize world-relevant information to their everyday lives. However, a majority of children’s TV programs in t...

📣📣 Here is a recent paper by Seung Heon Yoo & Heather L. Kirkorian in JCD:

"Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos"

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The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall Children’s episodic memory improves sharply between 4 and 7 years. Here, we asked whether the developing ability to impose narrative structure on events may be one reason for this change. Children ...

📣📣 A recent paper by Kate Hill et al. in JCD:

"The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall"
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Development of the Ability to Integrate Egocentric and Allocentric Coordinates in a Blindfolded Navigation Task Spatial orientation during locomotion is a fundamental daily function that requires building mental representations of the surrounding environment. Spatial representations are based on egocentric (...

📣📣 A recent paper by Silvia Zanchi et al. in JCD:

Development of the Ability to Integrate Egocentric and Allocentric Coordinates in a Blindfolded Navigation Task

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Do Bad People Deserve Prosociality? Pre-Schoolers’ Selective Evaluation of Social Mindfulness Based on the Beneficiary’s Moral Character Recent research shows that children by age 5 and 6 can evaluate socially mindful actions where one acts in a way that is considerate of another person’s freedom of choice. However, less is known as...

📣📣 Here is a recent paper by Xiaoman Yu et al. in JCD:

Do Bad People Deserve Prosociality? Pre-Schoolers’ Selective Evaluation of Social Mindfulness Based on the Beneficiary’s Moral Character

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Deconstructing Block Building Behaviours in 7- to 9-year-olds; Associations with Spatial and Mathematics Performance Block construction performance is related to mathematics and block construction training leads to improvement in mathematics. However, block construction is a complex task, and it is unknown which ...

📣📣 A recent paper by Emily K Farran et al. in JCD:

"Deconstructing Block Building Behaviours in 7- to 9-year-olds; Associations with Spatial and Mathematics Performance"

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Latent Profiles of Executive Functioning Predict Adolescent Styles of Social Information Processing Social information processing (SIP) describes a cycle of cognitive/behavioral steps required to evaluate and respond in social situations. SIP, along with executive functioning (EF) and theory of m...

📣📣 A recent paper by Ariadne Brandt et al. in JCD:

"Latent Profiles of Executive Functioning Predict Adolescent Styles of Social Information Processing"

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The Journal of Cognition and Development, the official journal of the Cognitive Development Society, is seeking nominations for the Editor-in-Chief, with the term to begin on July 1, 2026.

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Regional Disparities in Numerical Cognition: A Comparative Study of Chinese First-Graders from East and West This study explored regional disparities in numerical cognition among Chinese first-graders (aged 6–8 years, mean age 7 years old), comparing non-symbolic quantity and area perception abilities bet...

📣📣 A recent paper by Ruoyuan Yan et al. in JCD:

"Regional Disparities in Numerical Cognition: A Comparative Study of Chinese First-Graders from East and West"

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Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses The prosocial preferences of Chinese young children for individuals with varying wealth statuses were examined in the present study, focusing on their willingness to share, help, and cooperate with...

📣📣 A recent paper by Erping Xiao et al. in JCD:

Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy New Year!

Poster submissions for CDS 2026 are due by Thursday, January 8th.

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A reminder: poster submissions for CDS 2026 are due by January 8, 2026.

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Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children The present longitudinal microgenetic study examines the stability of inhibitory performance in German kindergarten children within one measurement (intraindividually) and across different measurem...

📣📣 A recent paper by Eva Michel et al. in JCD:

Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children

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📣📣 A recent paper by Michelle A. Hurst et al. in JCD:

"Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events"

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Cultural Constructions of Parent–Child Spatial Interactions Cultural influences, such as a language’s reading direction and parents’ everyday interactions, can impact a child’s asymmetric mapping of information to the left and right sides of space. To deter...

📣📣 A recent paper by Abigail Wolff et al. in JCD:

"Cultural Constructions of Parent–Child Spatial Interactions: Journal of Cognition and Development"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Poster submissions for CDS2026 are now open!

Submit your work for consideration at CDS 2026 in Montreal, Canada. Submissions are due by January 8, 2026.

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Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance In the United States, children typically learn about genetics during adolescence, despite early misconceptions about parental resemblance. This study explores whether U.S. 7- and 8-year-olds can co...

📣📣 A recent paper by Léa Tân Combette et al. in JCD:
"Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance"
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Higher Fearfulness in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children Related to Better Performance on an Emotional Than Neutral Stroop Task Executive function (EF) refers to processes involved in goal-directed behaviors. Good EF during early childhood is important for positive outcomes. However, little is known about how EF and tempera...

📣📣 A recent paper by Aryn M. Vaughan & Sammy Perone in JCD:

"Higher Fearfulness in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children Related to Better Performance on an Emotional Than Neutral Stroop Task"

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A recent paper by Jessica A. Stern et al. in JCD:
"Environmental Moral Cognition in Children and Adults: Journal of Cognition and Development"

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A Training Targeting Caregivers’ Responsiveness Promotes Index-Finger Pointing in 12-Month-Old Infants Index-finger pointing is a critical milestone for language development, thus requiring an account of its emergence. Empirical evidence indicates a correlation between caregivers’ responsiveness and...

📣📣 A recent paper by Katharina Kaletsch & Ulf Liszkowski:

A Training Targeting Caregivers’ Responsiveness Promotes Index-Finger Pointing in 12-Month-Old Infants

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Development and Differentiation of Executive Function Structure This study explores the development of executive function (EF), focusing on inhibition, working memory (WM), and cognitive flexibility. The sample consisted of 294 children recruited in Swiss publi...

📣📣 A recent paper by Marc Yangüez et al. in JCD:
"Development and Differentiation of Executive Function Structure"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do Conversations and Mental States Independently Influence Theory of Mind Development in Primary School Children? A Training Study This study aimed to disentangle the impact of group conversations and mental state content on children’s theory of mind (ToM) during middle childhood by independently manipulating these two factors...

📣📣 Check out the paper by Serena Lecce et al. in JCD:

"Do Conversations and Mental States Independently Influence Theory of Mind Development in Primary School Children?"

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Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...

📣📣 Check out a recent work by Emily E. Stonehouse et al. in JCD:

"Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making? Preschoolers often make more optimal future-oriented decisions for another person than for themselves (i.e., other-over-self advantage). This advantage may reflect psychological distance from the s...

📣📣A recent work by Sydney Rossiter et al. in JCD:

Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?

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Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms Climate change poses an increasingly dangerous threat to human life, necessitating widespread behavior change to mitigate its effects. Thus, targeting children, whose habits and norms are still for...

📣📣 A recent paper by Lesenia R. Fish & Arber Tasimi at JCD:

Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms

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How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions This study addresses the question of whether and how language influences mathematical cognition. Canadian students in Grades 4–7 (N = 348) were asked fraction multiplication questions in one of the...

📣📣 A recent paper by Hawes et al. at JCD:
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions

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Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland Nature connection (NC) in early childhood is increasingly recognized as a potential pathway to the development of lifelong environmental values and behaviors – a pathway that may hold growing relev...

📣📣 A recent paper by Meghan C. Orman et al. in JCD:

Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland

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