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A robot journey into cognition:The role and implications of augmentative manipulation in child development
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BACKGROUND: The strong relationship between motor and cognitive development suggests that the limited motor experience of children with physical disabilities can impact their cognitive and perceptual development. The assessment of their cognitive skills is also compromised due to limited verbal...
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Fall 2014
Number-line estimation is an important, useful, everyday skill that has been linked to numerical cognition and mathematical achievement more generally. Despite numerous investigations in the last decade and the importance of number-line estimation as a mathematical concept, gaps remain in our...
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Fall 2015
Prenatal alcohol exposure has detrimental consequences on brain development, resulting in a wide range of physical, cognitive and behaviour deficits termed fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods have identified numerous abnormalities of brain...
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Fall 2014
The engagement of cognitive control has been described as occurring in two forms: reactive control, where cognitive control is engaged only as needed, and proactive control, where cognitive control is engaged in anticipation of future control demands (Braver, Gray, & Burgess, 2007; Braver, 2012)....
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The Development and Transmission of Culturally Unique Attentional Styles in Canada and Japan: A Demonstration of Children’s Cultural Learning and Parents’ Scaffolding Behaviors
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Accumulating evidence suggests systematic cross-cultural differences in patterns of attention, such that North American adults’ attentional patterns tend to be more selective and object-oriented, while East Asian adults’ attentional patterns tend to be more diffused and context-sensitive. ...