Behavioral Sciences
Cognitive Psychology
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This PLOS ONE Collection showcases articles submitted for a recent Call for Papers and selected by our Guest Editors, in collaboration with the Center for Open Science. It includes a range of studies in developmental psychology: early cognitive development, language development, atypical development, cognitive processing across the lifespan, among others.
Guest Editors
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Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Benjamin Brown
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Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Nivedita Mani
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Guest Editor, PLOS ONE Ramesh Kumar Mishra
Registered Report Protocols
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PLOS ONE Rationale and validation of a novel mobile application probing motor inhibition: Proof of concept of CALM-IT
Identification of behavioral mechanisms underlying psychopathology is essential for the development of novel targeted therapeutics.…
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PLOS ONE Multiparametric MRI for the improved diagnostic accuracy of Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment: Research protocol of a case-control study design
Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major neurocognitive disorder identified by memory loss and a significant cognitive decline based…
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Image creditLove to shoot at the sun, it creates beautiful lines. by Wendy Aros-Routman, CC BY 2.0PLOS ONE Exploring predictors at toddler age of distinct profiles of attentional functioning in 6-year-old children born moderate-to-late preterm and full term
Objective: Examining relationships of toddler abilities in attention, cognitive, motor, and language development, and behavioral problems,…
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PLOS ONE Do adolescents always take more risks than adults? A within-subjects developmental study of context effects on decision making and processing
Adolescents take more risks than adults in the real world, but laboratory experiments do not consistently demonstrate this pattern. In the…
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PLOS ONE “There’s something inside”: Children’s intuitions about animate agents
From infancy, humans have the ability to distinguish animate agents from inert objects, and preschoolers map biological and mechanical…
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PLOS ONE Learning non-adjacent rules and non-adjacent dependencies from human actions in 9-month-old infants
Seven month old infants can learn simple repetition patterns, such as we-fo-we, and generalize the rules to sequences of new syllables,…
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PLOS ONE Limited evidence for executive function load impairing selective copying in a win-stay lose-shift task
The use of ‘explicitly metacognitive’ learning strategies has been proposed as an explanation for uniquely human capacities for cumulative…
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PLOS ONE Collaborative reasoning in the context of group competition
A key skill in collaborative problem-solving is to communicate and evaluate reasons for proposals to arrive at the decision benefiting all…
Rest of the Collection
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PLOS ONE Implicit learning of non-verbal regularities by deaf children with cochlear implants: An investigation with a dynamic temporal prediction task
Some deaf children continue to show difficulties in spoken language learning after cochlear implantation. Part of this variability has…
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PLOS ONE Breaking up classroom sitting time with cognitively engaging physical activity: Behavioural and brain responses
Introduction: Classroom-based active breaks are a feasible and effective way to reduce and break up sitting time, and to potentially…
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PLOS ONE Is left-behind a real reason for children’s social cognition deficit? An fNIRS study on the effect of social interaction on left-behind preschooler’s prefrontal activation
The left-behind phenomenon, caused by parent out-migration, has become a common social issue and might lead to long-term and potential…
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PLOS ONE Investigating the white matter correlates of reading performance: Evidence from Chinese children with reading difficulties
Purpose: Reading comprehension is closely associated with word recognition, particularly at the early stage of reading development. This…
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Image creditBedtime pt. 3 by Hans Isaacson, CC BY 2.0PLOS ONE The effect of colour on reading performance in children, measured by a sensor hub: From the perspective of gender
In recent decades reported findings regarding gender differences in reading achievement, cognitive abilities and maturation process in…
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PLOS ONE Effects of stress associated with academic examination on the kynurenine pathway profile in healthy students
The effects of stress on the neuroendocrine, central nervous and immune systems are extremely complex. The kynurenine pathway (KP) of the…
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PLOS ONE The influence of emotional face distractors on attentional orienting in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder
The current study examined how emotional faces impact on attentional control at both involuntary and voluntary levels in children with and…
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PLOS ONE Attentional and executive functions in children and adolescents with developmental coordination disorder and the influence of comorbid disorders: A systematic review of the literature
Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting primarily motor skills, but attentional and executive…
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PLOS ONE Attentional function in fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis
Concentration difficulties, forgetfulness and mental slowness are common in fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS); initial findings suggest that…
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PLOS ONE Visual preference for social vs. non-social images in young children with autism spectrum disorders. An eye tracking study
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are associated to social attention (SA) impairments. A gaze bias to non-social objects over faces has been…
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PLOS ONE Attentional shift within and between faces: Evidence from children with and without a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder
Evidence of attentional atypicalities for faces in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are far from being confirmed. Using eye-tracking…
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PLOS ONE Vowel dyslexia in Turkish: A window to the complex structure of the sublexical route
We report on developmental vowel dyslexia, a type of dyslexia that selectively affects the reading aloud of vowel letters. We identified…
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PLOS ONE Does age affect perception of the Speech-to-Song Illusion?
The Speech-to-Song Illusion is an auditory illusion that occurs when a spoken phrase is repeatedly presented. After several presentations,…
