Shannon P Kong
A5003994549- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Color perception and design
- Social Media and Politics
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Sleep and related disorders
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Reading and Literacy Development
Oxford Brookes University
2023
Much of our basic understanding cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures looking time, specifically infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation many behavioral tasks infant research, determinants preferences are poorly understood, differences expression can be difficult to interpret. In this large-scale study, we test predictions from Hunter Ames model infants' preferences. We investigate effects three factors...
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period increased time at home with caregivers, limited access external sources (e.g., daycares) provides a unique opportunity examine associations between caregiver-child activities language development. vocabularies 1742 children aged 8-36 months across 13 countries 12 languages were evaluated beginning end first lockdown their respective...
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings faced significant disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, compromising continuity, stability quality of provision. Three years on from first UK lockdown as pandemic-era preschoolers enter formal schooling, stakeholders are concerned about impact children’s cognitive socioemotional development, especially those socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Using parent-report data 171 children aged 5 to 23 months ( M = 15 months) in March...
Previous studies have shown that caregivers' sensitive, responsive interactions with young children can boost language development. We explored the association between sensitivity and vocabulary development of their 8-to-36-month-olds during COVID-19 when family routines were unexpectedly disrupted. Measuring from home interaction videos at three timepoints, we found who experienced more-sensitive concurrent had higher receptive expressive vocabularies (N=100). Children whose caregivers...
Abstract Background How often a child naps, during infancy, is believed to reflect both intrinsic factors, that is, the need of an immature brain consolidate information soon after it acquired, and environmental factors. Difficulty accounting for important factors interfere with child's sleep needs (e.g., attending daycare) has clouded our ability understand role drivers napping frequency. Methods Here we investigate patterns in association two measures cognitive ability, vocabulary size,...
This study examined children’s screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in a large cohort (n=2209) of 8-to-36-month-olds sampled from 15 labs across 12 countries. The sample was largely balanced by sex, though most participants were majority White. Caregivers reported that young infants and toddlers with no online schooling requirements exposed to more than before lockdown. While this exacerbated for countries longer lockdowns, there evidence increase associated demographics, e.g.,...
Kahneman and Tversky’s 1979 article on Prospect Theory is one of the most influential papers across all behavioural sciences. The study tested a series binary financial (risky) choices, ultimately concluding that judgments formed under uncertainty deviate significantly from those presumed by expected utility theory, which was prevailing theoretical construct at time. In forty years since publication, this has had remarkable impact science, policy, other real-world applications. At same time,...
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings faced significant disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, compromising continuity, stability, quality of provision. Three years on from first UK lockdown as pandemic-era preschoolers enter formal schooling, stakeholders are concerned about impact children’s cognitive socioemotional development, especially those socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Using parent-report data 171 children aged 5 - 23 months (M=15 months) in March June...
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings faced significant disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, compromising continuity, stability, quality of provision. Three years on from first UK lockdown as pandemic-era preschoolers enter formal schooling, stakeholders are concerned about impact children’s cognitive socioemotional development, especially those socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Using parent-report data 171 children aged 5 - 23 months (M=15 months) in March June...
Much of our basic understanding cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures looking time, specifically infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation many behavioral tasks infant research, determinants preferences are poorly understood, differences expression can be difficult to interpret. In this large-scale study, we test predictions from Hunter Ames model infants' preferences. We investigate effects three factors...