Negative Priming (NP) is an influential paradigm in cognitive psychology that was originally
developed to measure attentional selection. Yet, up to the mid-1990s, a large number of …

Attentional inhibition is the ability to suppress task-irrelevant cognitive processing and
ignore salient yet irrelevant features of the situation. However, it remains unclear whether …

A striking error in reading is the early and sometimes persistent confusion of mirror letters
such as b and d. These mirror errors are likely a result of the mirror generalization process …

Backgrounds: The relationship between linguistic difficulties and cognitive impairments in
children with developmental language disorders (DLDs) is receiving growing interest in …

Inhibitory control (ie, the ability to resist automatisms, temptations, distractions, or
interference and to adapt to conflicting situations) is a determinant of cognitive and socio …

Solving simple arithmetic word problems is a major ability that children must acquire
throughout the primary-grade mathematics curriculum. However, this skill is often …

We examined the relationship between executive functions and both factual and conceptual
learning of science, specifically chemistry, in early adolescence. Sixty‐three pupils in their …

Most children under 7 years of age presented with 10 daisies and 2 roses fail to indicate that
there are more flowers than daisies. Instead of the appropriate comparison of the relative …

To determine whether the growing ability to take a third‐person perspective (3PP) is
explained in part by the growing ability to inhibit a first‐person perspective (1PP), 10‐year …

School-aged children erroneously think that 1.45 is larger 1.5 because 45 is larger than 5.
Using a negative priming paradigm, we investigated whether the ability to compare the …