Publications by authors named "Jacqueline Pospisil"

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  • Some animals can remember important details about when and where they found food, which is called 'WWW' memory.
  • Researchers wanted to see if young kids, like 3- to 5-year-olds, could also use this type of memory in a similar way without lots of talking.
  • They found that younger kids had a hard time making choices based on memory because they didn't understand that food can go bad over time, but older kids (7 years and up) started to show better memory and decision-making skills.
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The ability to reason about fairness plays a defining role in the development of morality. Thus, researchers have long been interested in understanding when and how a sensitivity to fairness first develops. Here, we examined infants' ability to use fairness information in selecting social partners.

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One of the most important factors driving the development of memory during childhood is mnemonic control, or the capacity to initiate and maintain the processes that guide encoding and retrieval operations. The ability to selectively attend to and encode relevant stimuli is a particularly useful form of mnemonic control, and is one that undergoes marked improvement over childhood. We hypothesized that structural integrity of white matter tracts, in particular those connecting medial temporal lobe memory regions to other cortical areas, and/or those connecting frontal and parietal control regions, should contribute to successful mnemonic control.

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