What parents can take from this research
Learning to map relationships across different situations is a developing cognitive capacity that becomes increasingly important as problems grow more abstract.
What the research found
Analogical reasoning improved markedly across childhood and adolescence and was associated with developing brain systems involved in relational reasoning and cognitive control.
Full citation
Kirstie J. Whitaker et al. (2017). Neuroscientific insights into the development of analogical reasoning. Developmental Science.
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