Recent studies of adults have found evidence for consolidation effects in the acquisition of novel words (Dumay & Gaskell, 2007), but little is known about whether such effects are found developmentally. In two experiments we familiarized children with novel nonwords (e.g., biscal) and tested their recognition and recall of these items. In Experiment 1 7-year old children were then retested eit...

Four experiments examined children's inferences about the relation between objects' internal parts and their causal properties. In Experiment 1, 4-year-olds recognized that objects with different internal parts had different causal properties, and those causal properties transferred if the internal part moved to another object. In Experiment 2, 4-year-olds made inferences from an object's inter...

to study the effects of sowing dates on seed germination and on seed vigor of 12 spring rapeseed cultivars, an experiment was performed in years 2005-2006. during the first year, 12 cultivars of spring rapeseed were planted in the research field of seed and plant improvement institute, karaj, iran. during the second year, standard germination test was conducted to study the performance of the s...

We examined whether children's ability to integrate speech and gesture follows the pattern of a broader developmental shift between 3- and 5-year-old children (Ramscar & Gitcho, 2007) regarding the ability to process two pieces of information simultaneously. In Experiment 1, 3-year-olds, 5-year-olds, and adults were presented with either an iconic gesture or a spoken sentence or a combination o...

We examined whether children's ability to integrate speech and gesture follows the pattern of a broader developmental shift between 3and 5-year-olds (Ramscar & Gitcho, 2007) regarding the ability to process two pieces of information simultaneously. In Experiment 1, 3-year-olds, 5-year-olds and adults were presented with either an iconic gesture or a spoken sentence or a combination of the two o...

This report documents the results of research on congestion issues in Delay Tolerant Networks carried out by Durga Prasad Pandey during the summer of 2003. It consists of a proposal for an experiment to test the effectiveness of a cognition based congestion detection program. The experiment is proposed to be carried out during the academic year 2003-2004 as a final year research project at the ...

abstract introduction: today, there is a global tendency to teaching anatomy courses at the same time with clinical skills during medical education period. this project was designed to determine the effect of an integrated course of physical examination and trunk anatomy on second year medical students' knowledge of anatomy and their attitude towards this method of learning anatomy. method...

In two experiments, we examined young children's ability to delay a response to ambiguous input. In Experiment 1, 5- and 6-year-olds performed as poorly when they needed to choose between basing an interpretation on ambiguous input and delaying an interpretation as when making explicit evaluations of knowledge, whereas 7- and 8-year-olds found the former task easy. In Experiment 2, 5- and 6-yea...

Trait attribution is central to people's naïve theories of people and their actions. Previous developmental research indicates that young children are poor at predicting behaviors from past trait-relevant behaviors. We propose that the cognitive process of behavior-to-behavior predictions consists of two component processes: (1) behavior-to-trait inferences and (2) trait-to-behavior predictions...