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Multiple Developments in Counterfactual Thinking (2011)
Book Chapter
Beck, S. R., Riggs, K. J., & Burns, P. (2011). Multiple Developments in Counterfactual Thinking. In C. Hoerl, T. McCormack, & S. R. Beck (Eds.), Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (110-122). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199590698.003.0006

Mapping the development of children's counterfactual thinking should allow insight in to this process in adults and its relation with causal understanding. We argue that there is not one critical development that should be thought of as marking child... Read More about Multiple Developments in Counterfactual Thinking.

Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome (2011)
Journal Article
Simpson, A., Riggs, K., Beck, S. R., Gorniak, S. L., Wu, Y., Abbott, D., & Diamond, A. (2012). Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome. Developmental Science, 15(1), 62-73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01105.x

Understanding (a) how responses become prepotent provides insights into when inhibition is needed in everyday life. Understanding (b) how response prepotency is overcome provides insights for helping children develop strategies for overcoming such te... Read More about Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome.

Executive control and the experience of regret (2011)
Journal Article
Burns, P., Riggs, K. J., & Beck, S. R. (2012). Executive control and the experience of regret. Journal of experimental child psychology, 111(3), 501-515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2011.10.003

The experience of regret rests on a counterfactual analysis of events. Previous research indicates that regret emerges at around 6 years of age, marginally later than the age at which children begin to answer counterfactual questions correctly. We hy... Read More about Executive control and the experience of regret.

Three- and 4-year-olds encode modeled actions in two ways leading to immediate imitation and delayed emulation (2011)
Journal Article
Simpson, A., & Riggs, K. J. (2011). Three- and 4-year-olds encode modeled actions in two ways leading to immediate imitation and delayed emulation. Developmental Psychology, 47(3), 834-840. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023270

When copying a model's behavior with a tool, children tend to imitate (copy the specific actions to replicate the model's goal) rather than emulate (bring about the model's goal in the most efficient way). Tasks producing these findings test children... Read More about Three- and 4-year-olds encode modeled actions in two ways leading to immediate imitation and delayed emulation.

Under what conditions do children have difficulty in inhibiting imitation? Evidence for the importance of planning specific responses (2011)
Journal Article
Simpson, A., & Riggs, K. J. (2011). Under what conditions do children have difficulty in inhibiting imitation? Evidence for the importance of planning specific responses. Journal of experimental child psychology, 109(4), 512-524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2011.02.015

The response set effect has been observed in a number of developmental tasks that are proposed to required inhibition. This effect has been interpreted as evidence that the specific responses children plan to make in these tasks become prepotent. Her... Read More about Under what conditions do children have difficulty in inhibiting imitation? Evidence for the importance of planning specific responses.

The development of visual short-term memory for multifeature items during middle childhood (2011)
Journal Article
Riggs, K. J., Simpson, A., & Potts, T. (2011). The development of visual short-term memory for multifeature items during middle childhood. Journal of experimental child psychology, 108(4), 802-809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2010.11.006

Visual short-term memory (VSTM) research suggests that the adult capacity is limited to three or four multifeature object representations. Despite evidence supporting a developmental increase in capacity, it remains unclear what the unit of capacity... Read More about The development of visual short-term memory for multifeature items during middle childhood.