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View article: Visuospatial-based block-building training for improving emotion understanding and theory of mind in 4.5-year-olds.
Visuospatial-based block-building training for improving emotion understanding and theory of mind in 4.5-year-olds. Open
Most existing training programs designed to enhance children's sociocognitive abilities, such as emotion understanding and theory of mind, rely heavily on language-based approaches. This study investigated the effectiveness of a novel visu…
View article: Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language
Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language Open
The study examined the mediation model of socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function (EF) on reading abilities in Chinese (as first language, L1) and English (as second language, L2) in 260 native Cantonese‐speaking students (146 bo…
View article: SAMUeL: Efficient Vocal-Conditioned Music Generation via Soft Alignment Attention and Latent Diffusion
SAMUeL: Efficient Vocal-Conditioned Music Generation via Soft Alignment Attention and Latent Diffusion Open
We present a lightweight latent diffusion model for vocal-conditioned musical accompaniment generation that addresses critical limitations in existing music AI systems. Our approach introduces a novel soft alignment attention mechanism tha…
View article: Pathways among family socioeconomic status, parenting stress, home learning environment, and toddlers’ early academic skills
Pathways among family socioeconomic status, parenting stress, home learning environment, and toddlers’ early academic skills Open
This study investigated how family socioeconomic status (SES), parenting stress, and home learning environment collectively shape children’s early academic learning concurrently and longitudinally. Drawing on the family investment model an…
View article: Cross-lagged Relationships among Interpersonal Closeness, Early Language Skills, and Emotion Understanding in Toddlers
Cross-lagged Relationships among Interpersonal Closeness, Early Language Skills, and Emotion Understanding in Toddlers Open
This longitudinal study examined how parent-child closeness, teacher-child closeness, and language skills predicted and were predicted by emotion understanding in early years. Participants were 128 Hong-Kong-Chinese toddlers (74 girls; Mag…
View article: Mental processes underlying STEM problem solving in exceptional and typically developing children
Mental processes underlying STEM problem solving in exceptional and typically developing children Open
What mental processes do children spontaneously engage when facing STEM problems? The question is under-researched not only in exceptional children with autism (ASD) and high intelligence (HI) but also in typically developing children with…
View article: Irrelevant information enhances a sense of knowledge and curses our understanding of other minds.
Irrelevant information enhances a sense of knowledge and curses our understanding of other minds. Open
This study shows that exposure to topic-related but irrelevant information enhances both estimates of peer knowledge and our own sense of knowledge. In Experiment 1, participants were more confident in their answers to general knowledge qu…
View article: Gendered Pathways to Socioemotional Competencies in Very Young Children
Gendered Pathways to Socioemotional Competencies in Very Young Children Open
Parent-child and teacher-child relationships are important correlates of children’s socioemotional competencies. However, less is known about whether these relationship qualities play a role in shaping the early development of socioemotion…
View article: P300 as a correlate of false beliefs and false statements
P300 as a correlate of false beliefs and false statements Open
Introduction This study investigates P300 as a component for false belief and false statement processing with and without a communicative context. The purpose is to understand why P300 has been shown to be commonly involved in false belief…
View article: A longitudinal reciprocal relation between theory of mind and language
A longitudinal reciprocal relation between theory of mind and language Open
Ninety-seven Cantonese-speaking 4-year-olds were tested three times over 6 months on belief based theory of mind (ToM), general language ability, complement syntax, and verb factivity understanding. These capacities were assessed with care…
View article: Longitudinal relations among teacher-student closeness, cognitive flexibility, intrinsic reading motivation, and reading achievement
Longitudinal relations among teacher-student closeness, cognitive flexibility, intrinsic reading motivation, and reading achievement Open
This study examines the roles of cognitive flexibility and reading motivation in explaining the longitudinal link between teacher-student closeness and reading achievement. The investigation is motivated by the fact that cognitive flexibil…
View article: Investigating 18-month-olds’ association-based inferences in an interactive unexpected-identity paradigm
Investigating 18-month-olds’ association-based inferences in an interactive unexpected-identity paradigm Open
In the helping task a deceptive object is introduced in an agent's presence with its true identity revealed only later when she is absent. Toddlers' handing of the appearance instead of reality object to the agent has been taken as evidenc…
View article: Feedback-related negativity (FRN) and theta oscillations: Different feedback signals for non-conform and conform decisions
Feedback-related negativity (FRN) and theta oscillations: Different feedback signals for non-conform and conform decisions Open
The current study investigated if feedback-related negativity (FRN) and mid-frontal theta oscillations would respond differently during the outcome evaluations of conformity decisions, which were consistent with self vs. others' opinions. …
View article: Time perspective, control, and affect mediate the relation between regulatory mode and procrastination
Time perspective, control, and affect mediate the relation between regulatory mode and procrastination Open
This study examines the roles of time perspective, affect, and locus of control in mediating the relationship between regulatory mode and procrastination. Participants filled out the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, Positive and Negati…
View article: Mental Rotation in False Belief Understanding
Mental Rotation in False Belief Understanding Open
This study examines the spontaneous use of embodied egocentric transformation ( EET ) in understanding false beliefs in the minds of others. EET involves the participants mentally transforming or rotating themselves into the orientation of…
View article: Infants’ sensitivity to emotion in music and emotion-action understanding
Infants’ sensitivity to emotion in music and emotion-action understanding Open
Emerging evidence has indicated infants' early sensitivity to acoustic cues in music. Do they interpret these cues in emotional terms to represent others' affective states? The present study examined infants' development of emotional under…