The Cognitive Development Society (CDS)

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD by Rondeline M. Williams & Michael C. Frank: Selection of Goal-Consistent Auditory Environments by 3–5-Year-Old Children www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this recent paper by Hannah Fender et al. in JCD: "Declarative Memory and Language in Early Childhood: A Meta-Analysis of Studies Using Deferred Imitation" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A recent paper by Fengling Ma et al. in JCD: "Testing a Pragmatic Account of Young Children’s Waiting in Delay of Gratification Tasks" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A recent paper by Christine E. Ha & Stacey Doan: "Authoritative Parenting and Children’s Executive Functioning: Considering Children’s Biological Sensitivity" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Cindy Chiang & Toben H. Mintz: "Uh, What Did You Say? Children’s Parsing Preferences are Altered by Experience with Disfluent Sentences" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD by Nicole S. Gevaux & Elizabeth S. Nilsen: "Children’s Performance and Social Behaviour During Competitive Games" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD by Kathryn D. Schuler et al: "6-To-8 Year-Old Children Adjust Their Linguistic Generalizations Based on Distributional Cues" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 Recently published paper by Konstantin Steinmassl and Markus Paulus: "No Evidence for Associations Among Minimal Self Facets or with Attachment in Early Childhood: A Registered Report" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Yujia Liu et al. in JCD: "Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Kristy L. Armitage & Jonathan Redshaw in JCD: "Value-Driven Selectivity and Redundancy in Children’s Cognitive Offloading Decisions" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Ryan A. Burke & Jamie J. Jirout in JCD: "Exploring Science Identities in Elementary Classrooms" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @jamiejirout.bsky.social

📣📣 A recent paper by Marie Krenger & Catherine Thevenot in JCD: "Finger Counting Is Not a Dead End: Early Finger Use as a Marker of Arithmetic Development." Results show that finger counting scaffolds the acquisition of more advanced mental arithmetic strategies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Gisella Decarli et al. "Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

📣📣 A recent article by Amber D. Williams et al: "Parent Inequality Beliefs and Racial Socialization Practices: Implications for Children’s Anti-Black Biases" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

📣📣 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.... @noranewcombe.bsky.social

📣📣 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....

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/

📣📣 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....

📣📣 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....

📣📣 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....

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/

📣📣 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....

📣📣 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.

A reminder: poster submissions for CDS 2026 are due by January 8, 2026. For more information, please view our website: cogdevsoc.org/submissions/

📣📣 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....

📣📣 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....

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

📣📣 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....

📣📣 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....

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.... @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social

📣📣 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....

📣📣 A recent paper by Marc Yangüez et al. in JCD: "Development and Differentiation of Executive Function Structure" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 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....

📣📣 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.... orifriedman.bsky.social

📣📣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....

📣📣 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....

📣📣 A recent paper by Hawes et al. at JCD: How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions ‪@zackhawes.bsky.social‬ ‪@hannahwhitehead.bsky.social‬ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 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....

📣📣 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....

📣📣 A recent article by Lizette Pizza & Roberto Posada in JCD: How Human Exceptionalist Assumptions Impact Environmental Attitudes in Low Socioeconomic Urban Communities in Colombia @lizettepizza.bsky.social‬ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 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....

📣📣 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....

📣📣 A recent paper by Haley Weaver & Jenny Saffran: Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @jennysaffran.bsky.social

📣📣 In a recent paper in JCD, Narae Ju et al. found that feedback improves 5-year-olds’ communicative perspective-taking. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Mary C. Wagner et al. in JCD: Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....