Jukka M Leppänen
Jukka M Leppänen
Infants have a natural tendency to look at adults' faces, possibly to help initiate vital interactions with caregivers during sensitive periods of development. Recent studies using eye-tracking technologies have identified the mechanisms th...
The Microstructure of Action Perception in Infancy: Decomposing the Temporal Structure of Social Information Processing [0.03%]
婴儿行动知觉的微观结构——分解社会信息加工的时间模式
Gustaf Gredebäck,Moritz M Daum
Gustaf Gredebäck
In this article, we review recent evidence of infants' early competence in perceiving and interpreting the actions of others. We present a theoretical model that decomposes the timeline of action perception into a series of distinct process...
Allan Wigfield,Jessica Gladstone,Lara Turci
Allan Wigfield
The authors review research on children's reading motivation and its relation to their reading comprehension. They begin by discussing work on the development of school motivation in general and reading motivation in particular, reviewing w...
Emily C Merz,Katia M Harlé,Kimberly G Noble et al.
Emily C Merz et al.
In studies of children adopted from institutions, being raised in an institution has been associated consistently with an increased risk of persistent cognitive, academic, and social-emotional problems. These findings raise questions about ...
Janet Currie
Janet Currie
In this article, I review recent research showing that even relatively low levels of pollution can affect infants' health. This research attempts to go beyond documenting correlations by using sharp changes in pollution levels, carefully se...
Kristin Pauker,Amanda Williams,Jennifer R Steele
Kristin Pauker
The ability to discriminate visually based on race emerges early in infancy: 3-month-olds can perceptually differentiate faces by race and 6-month-olds can perceptually categorize faces by race. Between ages 6 and 8 years, children can sort...
Ming-Te Wang,Jessica Degol
Ming-Te Wang
In this article, we review knowledge about student engagement and look ahead to the future of study in this area. We begin by describing how researchers in the field define and study student engagement. In particular, we describe the levels...
Informal Kinship-Based Fostering Around the World: Anthropological Findings [0.03%]
基于亲属关系的非正式收养：人类学发现
Jessaca Leinaweaver
Jessaca Leinaweaver
Anthropological research around the world has documented informal, kinship-based foster care cross culturally. That research suggests that children are more likely to benefit from informal kinship-based fostering in cultural contexts where ...
Intergenerational Transmission of Aggression: Physiological Regulatory Processes [0.03%]
攻击行为的代际传递：生理调节过程
Gayla Margolin,Michelle C Ramos,Adela C Timmons et al.
Gayla Margolin et al.
Children who grow up in aggressive households are at risk of having problems with physiological regulation, but researchers have not investigated physiology as a mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of aggression. In this article...
Sarah C Kucker,Bob McMurray,Larissa K Samuelson
Sarah C Kucker
In this article, we review literature on word learning and propose a theoretical account of how lexical knowledge and word use emerge and develop over time. We contend that the developing lexical system is built on processes that support ch...