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Getting beyond the “convenience sample” in research on early cognitive development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2010

Anne Fernald
Anne Fernald
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Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. afernald@stanford.edu
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Abstract

Research on the early development of fundamental cognitive and language capacities has focused almost exclusively on infants from middle-class families, excluding children living in poverty who may experience less cognitive stimulation in the first years of life. Ignoring such differences limits our ability to discover the potentially powerful contributions of environmental support to the ontogeny of cognitive and language abilities.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 2-3 , June 2010 , pp. 91 - 92
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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