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    A Closer Look at Enhanced Ebooks: Compatible Versus Distracting Games 

    Hrobon, Julia (Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)
    The current literature on eBooks contains conflicting results for enhanced eBooks containing games and hot spots as effective reading tools for children. This study investigated different types of interactivity within ...
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    Throwing Kinematics and Children's Abilities in the Imaginary Ball Situation 

    Capucilli, Peter S. (Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
    A preliminary study conducted by Rieser et al. (2005) found a discrepancy in the technique three to five year old children use when throwing a tangible ball vs. pretending to throw an imaginary ball at targets varying in ...
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    Infants' Anticipations and Grasps of Familiar and Unfamiliar Tools 

    Halligan, Taylor (Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)
    Infants must learn how to use many tools in order to engage in a variety of daily tasks. An unpublished pilot study in our lab suggests that 6.5 to 8.5-month-old infants fixated more on the handle of a familiar tool than ...
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    Hindu and Christian children's concepts of life, death, and afterward 

    Bryce, Suzanne Nellie. (Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
    Children's understanding of death is likely to mediate how effectively they cope with the experience of the death of loved ones, or in the case of severely ill children, their own impending deaths. In order to develop the ...
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    Eating Disorders and Life Span Development 

    Culbertson, Lauren (Vanderbilt University, 2015-11-19)
    Current research shows a relationship between age and eating disorder diagnoses but does not fully understand how symptoms manifest at different stages of Life Span Development (LSD). To identify the difference of eating ...
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    Children's and Adults' Use of Conversation Cues When Selecting Sources of Information 

    DeLisle, Sarah S. (Vanderbilt University, 2009)
    Word learning may be best characterized by the ability to recruit information from social others. One question, then, is how children decide to learn words from one person versus another. The present study investigates the ...
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    Acoustic properties of speech under stress in preschool children who do and do not stutter 

    Morrow, Emily (Vanderbilt University, 2014)
    Previous research has shown that stuttering, a potentially life-altering developmental disorder with typical onset during the preschool years, is linked in severity to temperamental and situational emotionality. Thirty-three ...
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    Differences in How Monolingual and Bilingual Children Learn Second Labels for Familiar Objects 

    Rowe, Lindsey (Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
    Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...
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    Parent-Child Communication and Self-Efficacy Among Families of Children with Sickle Cell Disease 

    Criswell-Moore, Candace (Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
    This study examined how parent factors (education and income), child factors (age and sickle cell disease severity), and parent and child self-efficacy ratings related to parent-child communication and Sickle Cell Disease ...
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    Inferring Structural Properties of Objects from Intentional Gestures in Infancy 

    Jacobson, John D. (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
    In this study, we were interested in what 9-month-olds understood about the physical properties of an object after seeing an intentional gesture made toward the object. Specifically, we asked whether infants could make ...
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