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How Do People Know How to Throw a Ball? Underhand Throwing by Congenitally Totally Blind and Blindfolded Sighted Adults
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-03)
Persons who are blind participate in a wide number of sports, ranging from the various competitions in track and field, to goal ball and baseball. How is it, we asked, that persons know how to throw a ball? Learning ...
Acoustic Properties of Laughter in Individuals with Williams Syndrome
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-28)
Familial Socioeconomic Status and the Language Environment: Measurement Consistency and Specificity
(Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-29)
Is what I think really what I think?: Examining implicit and explicit attitudes toward stuttering
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
This study assessed implicit and explicit attitudes toward people who stutter. Twenty-four typically-fluent college-aged participants completed an Implicit Association Test, a measure of implicit attitudes, to assess the ...
Children’s Attributions of Knowledge and Trustworthiness to Other Children with Disabilities
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)
Young children are influenced by both relevant and irrelevant traits when they infer people’s knowledge and decide whether those people are to be trusted. The current study examines age-related differences in children’s ...
Can 24-Month-Old Toddlers Transfer Their Representational Insights from Video to Pictures?
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)
Representational media are everywhere in children’s daily lives: the photos on the wall, the videos shown on TV, and the picture books children read. In order to foster better learning and develop more age-appropriate ...
Dyadic Interaction Style and Infant Attention in the Sticky Mittens Paradigm
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04)
Previous research has shown that the “sticky mittens” reaching intervention has a positive effect on reaching and object exploration skills. Further, early reaching and object exploration abilities have been shown to have ...
Infant Tool Use and Executive Function
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
How do toddlers’ executive function skills relate to abilities to use familiar tools in unfamiliar ways? What method might encourage infants to employ executive function skills to override their prepotent, or automatic, ...
Preschoolers’ word learning when highlighting lexical or phonological awareness
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-17)
Supporting Executive Function Development through Parent-Child Book Reading
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-21)
Executive functioning (EF) is a key element of school readiness. Despite evidence for the influential role parents can play in supporting child EF development, current EF-directed interventions rarely focus on parents. And ...