The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) has been used to study decision-making differences in many
different clinical and developmental samples. It has been suggested that IGT performance …

Many authors have argued that infants understand goals, intentions, and beliefs. We posit
that infants' success on such tasks might instead reveal an understanding of behaviour, that …

" In this book, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive
science-the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. Stanovich …

Individuals with autism spectrum condition (ASC) have diagnostic impairments in skills that
are associated with an implicit acquisition; however, it is not clear whether ASC individuals …

Sleep crucially contributes to the off-line consolidation of memories. Although this view was
confirmed in numerous studies in adults, it is not known whether it can be generalized to …

The Procedural Deficit Hypothesis (PDH) posits that Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
can be largely explained by abnormalities of brain structures that subserve procedural …

This experiment aimed at studying the benefits of different types of training (visual, motor, or
visual-motor), in comparison to a control group, on 5-year-olds' performance in a task of …

All of us have learned much about language, music, physical or social environment, and
other complex domains, out of any intentional attempts to acquire information. This chapter …

Purpose This article discusses children's development of mature swallowing and feeding as
a process of skill acquisition and considers the applicability of motor learning concepts for …

The study assessed the impact of spatial and temporal constraints on handwriting
movements in young children. One hundred children of 5–7 years of age of both genders …