Catarina Vales
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Kim J, Singh S, Vales C, Keebler E, Fisher A, Thiessen E
Dev Sci
. 2023 May;
26(6):e13410.
PMID: 37211716
In this paper, we decompose selective sustained attending behavior into components of continuous attention maintenance and attentional transitions and study how each of these components develops in young children. Our...
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Vales C, Wu C, Torrance J, Shannon H, States S, Fisher A
Front Psychol
. 2021 Aug;
12:697550.
PMID: 34421748
Remote data collection procedures can strengthen developmental science by addressing current limitations to in-person data collection and helping recruit more diverse and larger samples of participants. Thus, remote data collection...
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Unger L, Vales C, Fisher A
Cogn Sci
. 2020 Sep;
44(9):e12894.
PMID: 32929791
The organization of our knowledge about the world into an interconnected network of concepts linked by relations profoundly impacts many facets of cognition, including attention, memory retrieval, reasoning, and learning....
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Vales C, Stevens P, Fisher A
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2020 Jul;
199:104914.
PMID: 32711216
Organized semantic representations encoding across- and within-domain distinctions are a hallmark of mature cognition, and understanding how they change with experience and learning is a key endeavor in developmental science....
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Vales C, States S, Fisher A
Child Dev
. 2020 May;
91(3):733-742.
PMID: 32436236
Organized semantic networks reflecting distinctions within and across domains of knowledge are critical for higher-level cognition. Thus, understanding how semantic structure changes with experience is a fundamental question in developmental...
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Vales C, Fisher A
Cogn Sci
. 2019 Jun;
43(6):e12746.
PMID: 31204802
A large literature suggests that the organization of words in semantic memory, reflecting meaningful relations among words and the concepts to which they refer, supports many cognitive processes, including memory...
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Vales C, Smith L
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2018 Jul;
175:37-47.
PMID: 29986170
A large literature shows strong developmental links between early language abilities and later cognitive abilities. We present evidence for one pathway by which language may influence cognition and development: by...
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Carvalho P, Vales C, Fausey C, Smith L
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2017 Dec;
168:1-18.
PMID: 29287205
Known words can guide visual attention, affecting how information is sampled. How do novel words, those that do not provide any top-down information, affect preschoolers' visual sampling in a conceptual...
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Benitez V, Vales C, Hanania R, Smith L
J Exp Child Psychol
. 2016 Dec;
156:29-42.
PMID: 28024178
Stability and flexibility are fundamental to an intelligent cognitive system. Here, we examined the relationship between stability in selective attention and explicit control of flexible attention. Preschoolers were tested on...
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Vales C, Smith L
Dev Sci
. 2014 Apr;
18(1):65-79.
PMID: 24720802
Do words cue children's visual attention, and if so, what are the relevant mechanisms? Across four experiments, 3-year-old children (N = 163) were tested in visual search tasks in which...