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Chapter Two - The Development of Object Fitting: The Dynamics of Spatial Coordination
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): Jeffrey J. Lockman, Nicholas E. Fears, Wendy P. JungAbstractFitting objects into apertures is an adaptive skill that is incorporated into the design of many tools. We match or align shapes with openings when we insert keys into locks, when we put lids atop containers, or when we align a screwdriver with the groove of a screw. Traditionally, the development of object fitting has focused on children's abilities to successfully complete shape sorter tasks (e.g., square peg through square hole). By measuring children's success in thes...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Three - The Development of Sensorimotor Intelligence in Infants
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): Claes von Hofsten, Kerstin RosanderAbstractInfancy is the most dynamic part of human development. During this period, all basic sensorimotor and cognitive abilities are established. In this chapter, we will trace some of the important achievements of this development with a focus on how infants achieve predictive control of actions, i.e., how they come to coordinate their behavior with the ongoing events in the world without lagging behind. With the maturation of the brain, new possibilities that have profound effects on cognitio...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Four - Are Different Actions Mediated by Distinct Systems of Knowledge in Infancy?
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): Peter M. VishtonAbstractThis chapter considers why studies of infant looking and reaching often suggest different patterns of cognitive and perceptual development. In some cases, convergent results have emerged from studies of infant looking and reaching, but differences are common. The most typical results suggest less adult-like perception and cognition in studies of reaching than in studies of looking. Several reaching studies, however, do not fit this pattern, suggesting that reaching actions may be mediated by distinct system...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Five - Action Errors: A Window Into the Early Development of Perception–Action System
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): Matthew J. Jiang, Karl S. RosengrenAbstractIn this chapter, we explore an interesting class of behaviors, referred to as action errors, which, we argue, provide a window in to the early development of the perception–action system. As we examine these behaviors, we discuss how acquisition of motor and cognitive skills interact at particular periods of development to make children more likely to perform action errors. However, we also provide evidence that even adults perform action errors under certain task demands. We argue that...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Six - Timing Is Almost Everything: How Children Perceive and Act on Dynamic Affordances
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): Jodie M. Plumert, Joseph K. KearneyAbstractA key challenge for the developing perception–action system is learning how to move the self in relation to other moving objects. This often involves perceiving and acting on affordances or possibilities for action that depend on the relation between the characteristics of the individual and the properties of the environment (Gibson, 1979). This chapter overviews our program of research on perceiving and acting on dynamic affordances (i.e., possibilities for action that vary over time)....
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Seven - Physical Growth, Body Scale, and Perceptual-Motor Development
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): Karl M. Newell, Michael G. WadeAbstractIn this chapter we consider from the theoretical framework of the ecological approach to perception and action, the relations between physical growth and body scale in the context of children's perceptual-motor development. Body scale and the timescale of its change through growth are shown to relate to the emergence and dissolution of the fundamental skills in infancy, the perception of what an environment affords functionally for action, together with the emergent pattern of movement coord...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Eight - A Perception–Action Approach to Understanding Typical and Atypical Motor Development
Publication date: 2018Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 55Author(s): Jill Whitall, Jane E. ClarkAbstractIn this chapter, we ask two questions. First, can the study of the perception–action system across time offer a useful model for understanding motor development? Second, can the study of the perception–action system in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) inform our understanding of atypical as well as typical motor development? We begin by describing the dynamical systems perspective and a control-theoretic approach that together provide the conceptual framework for our pa...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 19, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Five - Notice, Explore, and Talk About Mathematics: Making a Positive Difference for Preschool Children, Families, and Educators in Australian Communities That Experience Multiple Disadvantages
Publication date: 2017Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 53Author(s): Ann Gervasoni, Bob PerryAbstractLet's Count is a preschool mathematics intervention implemented by The Smith Family from 2012 to the present in “disadvantaged” communities across Australia. It is based on current mathematics and early childhood education research and aligns with the Australian Early Years Learning Framework. Let's Count has been shown to be effective in enhancing mathematics learning and dispositions of young children, early childhood educators, and families through a longitudinal evaluation undertaken from 20...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Eight - Early Executive Function and Mathematics Relations: Correlation Does Not Ensure Concordance
Publication date: 2017Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 53Author(s): Michèle M.M. Mazzocco, Jenny Yun-Chen Chan, Allison M. BockAbstractIn this chapter, we address one potentially overlooked component of the relation between executive function (EF) skills and early mathematics, a relation for which there is widespread empirical support. Evidence for this relation has, thus far, been largely correlational. Here we emphasize that because positive correlations do not guarantee concordance among all members of a sample or population, a small but meaningful number of children may either fare well in ma...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Seven - Interventions for Primary School Children With Difficulties in Mathematics
Publication date: 2017Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 53Author(s): Ann DowkerAbstractDifficulty with arithmetic is a common problem for children and adults, though there has been some work on the topic for a surprisingly long time. This chapter will review some of the research that has been done over the years on interventions with primary school children. Interventions can be of various levels of intensiveness, ranging from whole-class approaches that take account of individual differences through small-group and limited-time individual interventions to extended-time individual interventions. In...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Six - Designing Studies to Test Causal Questions About Early Math: The Development of Making Pre-K Count
Publication date: 2017Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 53Author(s): Shira K. Mattera, Pamela A. Morris, Robin Jacob, Michelle Maier, Natalia RojasAbstractA growing literature has demonstrated that early math skills are associated with later outcomes for children. This research has generated interest in improving children's early math competencies as a pathway to improved outcomes for children in elementary school. The Making Pre-K Count study was designed to test the effects of an early math intervention for preschoolers. Its design was unique in that, in addition to causally testing the effects o...
Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior - July 11, 2018 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Chapter Four - Coaching in Early Mathematics
Publication date: 2017Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 53Author(s): Carrie Germeroth, Julie SaramaAbstractFalling scores in math have prompted a renewed interest in math instruction at early ages. By their own admission, early childhood educators are generally underprepared and not always comfortable teaching math. Professional development (PD) in early mathematics is widely considered a main way to increase teachers' skills and efficacy (e.g., Guskey, 2000; Hyson & Woods, 2014; Munby, Russell, & Martin, 2001; Piasta, Logan, Pelatti, Capps, & Petrill, 2015; Richardson & Placier, 2001; Sarama, Clem...
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Chapter One - The DREME Network: Research and Interventions in Early Childhood Mathematics
Publication date: 2017Source: Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 53Author(s): Crystal Day-Hess, Douglas H. ClementsAbstractThe DREME Network was created to advance the field of early mathematics research and improves the opportunities to develop math competencies offered to children birth through age 8 years, with an emphasis on the preschool years. All four main Network projects will have implications for interventions. Section 1 introduces the Network and its four projects. The remainder of the chapter focuses on one of these four projects, Making More of Math (MMM), in depth. MMM is directly developing a...
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