Editorial: Mental State Understanding: Individual Differences in Typical and Atypical Development

Editorial: Mental State Understanding: Individual Differences in Typical and Atypical Development

Individual differences and development of speech act production

This  study  examined  the  effects  of  individual  difference  (ID)  factors  on  changing  pragmatic abilities  among  L2  learners  of  English.  Participants  were  48  Japanese  EFL  students  in  an English-medium  university  in  Japan.  They  completed  a  pragmatic  speaking  test  (k=12)  that assessed  their  ability  to  produce  two  speech  acts:  requests  and  opinions,  in  hi...

Contributions of social and affective neuroscience to our understanding of typical and atypical development

The study of typical and atypical development in chilren and adolescents has become increasingly informed y and integrated with social and affective neuroscience erspectives. Emerging research from the social and affecive neurosciences highlights the influence of social and motional factors, and their interactions, on the developing rain. The purpose of this special section is to draw attenion ...

Interactivity and Individual Differences in Mental Arithmetic

Symposium: Advances in Thinking, Problem Solving and Creativity: A Festschrift for Kenneth J. Gilhooly Organiser: Linden Ball Rationale: Since the 1970s Ken Gilhooly has made major and lasting contributions to the fields of thinking, problem solving and creativity through his research on topics such as the role of working memory and individual differences in reasoning and planning, the processe...

Subject relatives in typical and atypical language development

In the present research we aim to determine whether relative clauses are successful in distinguishing Italian-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) from their typically developing peers. Ninetheen preschool-aged children with SLI participated in the study. They were matched to ninetheen typically developing (TD) children on the basis of the age. Children were tested by means...