In a study published earlier this year in Developmental Science, psychologists found no difference in the response to snakes when they compared children who grew up in cities with children who grew up in rural areas where they regularly encountered snakes.
Recently, he received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development and the Distinguished Mentor Award and the G. Stanley Hall Award for Lifelong Achievement in Developmental Science from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association.
The new findings build on another recent study from the Menon lab, published April 25 in Developmental Science, that explored how children's brains change as they adopt a more sophisticated strategy for solving arithmetic problems.
The new research by Anne Fernald, a psychologist at Stanford University, which was published in Developmental Science this year, showed that at 18 months children from wealthier homes could identify pictures of simple words they knew — "dog" or "ball" — much faster than children from low-income families.
A recent study in Developmental Science, led by Kathryn Humphreys, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University and a former postdoctoral fellow in Gotlib's lab, found that hippocampal growth is especially sensitive to stress during the first five years of a child's life.
This week, the media picked up on a recently published article in Developmental Science by researchers at Johns Hopkins (Libertus, Fiegneson, and Halbreda, 2011) suggesting that children as young as three with the ability to quickly differentiate smaller vs. bigger amounts– a "math sense" of sorts– also performed better in a more formal math task.
Jake Fairnie is a Cognitive Neuroscience PhD student at UCL, and Anna Remington completed her PhD in Developmental Science in 2009 at UCL and is now a Junior Research Fellow in Autism and Related Disorders at the University of Oxford.
Kuo's revolutionary work embodies what today we call a relational developmental systems (RDS) perspective (Overton and Lerner, 2012), and it contributed to the Kuhnian paradigm shift in developmental science (Greenberg, 2014).
Drawing on her background in developmental science, industrial-organizational psychology, education, and public policy, she works with community organizations, businesses, and government to translate science of learning research into evidence-informed practices and policies.
In a new study, published in Developmental Science, Libertus and her colleagues find that an intuitive sense of number, known as the approximate number system (ANS), is present in preschoolers and related to their math ability before they get any math training.
