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Children’s Judgments of Moral and Conventional Violations Committed by Individuals with Disabilities
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-14)
Young children are sensitive to actions that violate moral or conventional norms, and often conceptualize people who commit such violations as unkind and deserving of punishment. However, there are many circumstances in ...
Children’s Attributions of Knowledge and Trustworthiness to Other Children with Disabilities
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)
Young children are influenced by both relevant and irrelevant traits when they infer people’s knowledge and decide whether those people are to be trusted. The current study examines age-related differences in children’s ...
Can 24-Month-Old Toddlers Transfer Their Representational Insights from Video to Pictures?
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)
Representational media are everywhere in children’s daily lives: the photos on the wall, the videos shown on TV, and the picture books children read. In order to foster better learning and develop more age-appropriate ...
Dyadic Interaction Style and Infant Attention in the Sticky Mittens Paradigm
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04)
Previous research has shown that the “sticky mittens” reaching intervention has a positive effect on reaching and object exploration skills. Further, early reaching and object exploration abilities have been shown to have ...
Infant Tool Use and Executive Function
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
How do toddlers’ executive function skills relate to abilities to use familiar tools in unfamiliar ways? What method might encourage infants to employ executive function skills to override their prepotent, or automatic, ...
Preschoolers’ word learning when highlighting lexical or phonological awareness
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-17)
Supporting Executive Function Development through Parent-Child Book Reading
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-21)
Executive functioning (EF) is a key element of school readiness. Despite evidence for the influential role parents can play in supporting child EF development, current EF-directed interventions rarely focus on parents. And ...
Online environments not a barrier to preschoolers questions about unknown words
(Vanderbilt University, 2022)
When preschoolers encounter a new word and word meaning, they can quickly link the two
items to learn a new word. When not provided with the necessary items to learn a word,
preschoolers will drive their own word learning. ...
How Do People Know How to Throw a Ball? Underhand Throwing by Congenitally Totally Blind and Blindfolded Sighted Adults
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-03)
Persons who are blind participate in a wide number of sports, ranging from the various competitions in track and field, to goal ball and baseball. How is it, we asked, that persons know how to throw a ball? Learning ...
Acoustic Properties of Laughter in Individuals with Williams Syndrome
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-28)