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Adults show selective responses to unreliability based on the strength of counterevidence Open
Adults can reflectively revise their beliefs and selectively respond to unreliable informants, despite often forming and revising beliefs unreflectively without assessing their reasons. This study investigates how the strength of counterev…
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Computational Approaches Reveal Developmental Shifts in Exploratory Play Open
Although exploratory play is considered a hallmark of cognitive development and learning, relatively few studies have been able to quantitatively characterize the shifts that may occur in children's approach to exploration. One reason for …
Nonverbal Rationality? 2-Year-Old Children, Dogs, and Pigs Show Unselective Responses to Unreliability but to Different Degrees Open
Some philosophers argue that reflection is key to rational thinking. By tying reflective thinking to language, they struggle to account for minimally verbal infants and exclude nonhuman animals. This study assessed processing of underminin…
Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability, but to different degrees Open
Some philosophers argue that reflection is key to rational thinking. By tying reflective thinking to language, they struggle to account for minimally verbal infants and exclude non-human animals. This study assessed processing of undermini…
Non-verbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability, but to different degrees Open
Some philosophers argue that reflection is key to rational thinking. By tying reflective thinking to language, they struggle to account for minimally verbal infants and exclude non-human animals. This study assesses processing of undermini…
Adults show selective responses to unreliability based on the strength of counterevidence Open
Adults can reflectively revise their beliefs and selectively respond to unreliable informants, despite often forming and revising beliefs unreflectively without assessing their reasons. This study investigates how the strength of counterev…
Non-verbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability, but to different degrees Open
Some philosophers argue that reflection is key to rational thinking. By tying reflective thinking to language, they struggle to account for minimally verbal infants and exclude non-human animals. This study assesses processing of undermini…
Non-verbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability, but to different degrees Open
Some philosophers argue that reflection is key to rational thinking. By tying reflective thinking to language, they struggle to account for minimally verbal infants and exclude non-human animals. This study assesses processing of undermini…
Home Enrichment Is Associated with Visual Working Memory Function in Preschoolers Open
Home enrichment plays an important role in shaping children's development. In the current study, we inquired whether home enrichment was associated with pre‐schoolers' visual working memory (VWM) function, a critical cognitive system neces…
Disentangling age and schooling effects on inhibitory control development: An fNIRS investigation Open
Children show marked improvements in executive functioning (EF) between 4 and 7 years of age. In many societies, this time period coincides with the start of formal school education, in which children are required to follow rules in a stru…
Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture Open
Human learners are rarely the passive recipients of valuable social information. Rather, learners usually have to actively seek out information from a variety of potential others to determine who is in a position to provide useful informat…
Disentangling Age and Schooling Effects on Inhibitory Control Development: An fNIRS Investigation Open
Children show marked improvements in executive functioning (EF) between 4 and 7 years of age. In many societies, this time period coincides with the start of formal school education, in which children are required to follow rules in a stru…
Home assessment of visual working memory in pre‐schoolers reveals associations between behaviour, brain activation and parent reports of life stress Open
Visual working memory (VWM) is reliably predictive of fluid intelligence and academic achievements. The objective of the current study was to investigate individual differences in pre‐schoolers’ VWM processing by examining the association …
Extended difficulties with counterfactuals persist in reasoning with false beliefs: Evidence for teleology-in-perspective Open
Increasing evidence suggests that counterfactual reasoning is involved in false belief reasoning. Because existing work is correlational, we developed a manipulation that revealed a signature of counterfactual reasoning in participants' an…
Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture Open
Human learners are rarely the passive recipients of valuable social information. Rather, learners usually have to actively seek out information from a variety of potential others to determine who is in a position to provide useful informat…
Home assessment of visual working memory in pre-schoolers reveals associations between behaviour, brain activation and environmental measures. Open
Visual working memory (VWM) is reliably predictive of fluid intelligence and academic achievements. The objective of the current study was to investigate the nature of individual differences in pre-schoolers by examining the relationship b…
Helping as an early indicator of a theory of mind: mentalism or teleology?: Dataset 1 Open
Dataset 1 is a straight replication of the original true and false belief conditions in Buttelmann, Carpenter and Tomasello (2009). Materials were produced according to the description in Buttelmann et al. (2009) and we videotaped our proc…
Belief and Counterfactuality Open
The development and relation of counterfactual reasoning and false belief understanding were examined in 3- to 7-year-old children (N = 75) and adult controls (N = 14). The key question was whether false belief understanding engages counte…
Little Scientists – Big Impact Open
First paragraph: In the Division of Psychology at the University of Stirling, we regard our onsite kindergarten as one of our greatest assets. However, when we say this to others, we are used to encountering reactions that range from incre…
The picture morphing task – an efficient and quick means to measure updating Open
We report the results of three studies using a picture morphing task. We argue that this task is an effective, easy to administer, and widely applicable assessment tool for probing the ability to update perceptual representations. By prese…