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

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02.03.2026 14:24 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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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

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

23.02.2026 14:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image announces that registration is now open for the Cognitive Development Society conference, with a mural in the background.

Image announces that registration is now open for the Cognitive Development Society conference, with a mural in the background.

Heading to the Cognitive Development Society meeting in Montreal?

Make sure to register! Early bird registration ends on Thursday, February 19.

For more information, please visit our website:
cogdevsoc.org/registration/

17.02.2026 14:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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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

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

17.02.2026 14:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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"

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

14.02.2026 22:01 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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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"

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

23.01.2026 13:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Journal - CDS

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.

Application materials are due February 16.

For more information, visit: cogdevsoc.org/journal/

20.01.2026 15:57 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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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"

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

19.01.2026 20:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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....

13.01.2026 06:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy New Year!

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

04.01.2026 19:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Image of Montreal with text noting that poster submissions for the upcoming SRCD conference are due on January 8, 2026

Image of Montreal with text noting that poster submissions for the upcoming SRCD conference are due on January 8, 2026

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

For more information, please view our website:
cogdevsoc.org/submissions/

12.12.2025 17:52 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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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

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

08.12.2025 18:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📣📣 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"

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

18.11.2025 20:03 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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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....

11.11.2025 19:32 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

For more information, please view our website:
cogdevsoc.org/submissions/

05.11.2025 23:23 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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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"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

03.11.2025 13:39 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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"

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

27.10.2025 11:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

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

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20.10.2025 16:14 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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....

13.10.2025 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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....

30.09.2025 15:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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?"

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

24.09.2025 15:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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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15.09.2025 21:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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?

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

01.09.2025 16:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

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

26.08.2025 16:06 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

20.08.2025 19:08 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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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

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

11.08.2025 20:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind This study longitudinally investigated the relation between maternal mental state (MS) language when narrating a familiar wordless storybook and preschoolers’ theory of mind (ToM) abilities. Mother...

📣📣 A recent paper by Hande Ilgaz et al. in JCD:

"More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind"

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

31.07.2025 00:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

📣📣 A recent article by Lizette Pizza & Roberto Posada in JCD:

How Human Exceptionalist Assumptions Impact Environmental Attitudes in Low Socioeconomic Urban Communities in Colombia

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

22.07.2025 14:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

📣📣 A recent article by Tal Waltzer et al.:
“What is Climate Change and What Can I Do About It?” A Survey and Educational Intervention with 10- to 13-Year-Olds

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

15.07.2025 15:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena Climate change poses global challenges to health and the economy, particularly affecting children’s well-being in developing countries. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence for the reality and ...

📣📣 Check out a recent article published in JCD by Shaocong Ma & Paul L. Harris “Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena

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

07.07.2025 18:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0