Caitlin E V Mahy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5079342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitlin E V Mahy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitlin E V |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahy |
| SIGNATURE | MAHY C E V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0925-611X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructive episodic simulation, self-projection, and scene construction: Investigating the mechanisms of children's episodic thinking
Constructive episodic simulation, self-projection, and scene construction are three prominent cognitive mechanisms posited to underpin episodic thinking. This study investigated whether these mechanisms explain individual differences in children's episodic thinking and relations to other related abilities during middle childhood (i.e., imagination, perspective-taking, and spatial navigation). A sample of 150 Canadian children aged 8 to 10 years c…
Differential attentional demands on implicit and explicit associative memory in children 8–12 years old
Associative memory improves during childhood, suggesting an age-related improvement in the binding mechanism responsible for linking information together. However, tasks designed to measure associative memory not only measure binding, but also place demands on attention. This makes it difficult to dissociate age-related improvements in memory from the development of attention. One way to reduce attentional demands is to test memory implicitly ver…
Special Issue Introduction: Bringing Theory to the Forefront of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Children’s saving: A review and proposed ecological framework
Children begin to save money and items at 3 years of age. • Children’s saving is related to cognitive abilities, personality, and social factors. • Short-term interventions or education programs can facilitate children’s saving. • We propose a novel ecological framework to better understand children’s saving. • Personal characteristics, the environment, and their interactions play a role in the development of children’s saving. Saving, defined as…
Episodic thought in development: On the relation between memory and future thinking
Extensive research from cognitive neuroscience has shown that episodic memory and future thinking are related processes and has given rise to theories attempting to explain these similarities, but developmental research has only minimally been considered. We argue that developmental research is fundamental to understanding the association between episodic memory and future thinking and that existing neurocognitive theories do not fully accommodat…
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment
The emergence of procrastination in early childhood: Relations with executive control and future-oriented cognition
Little is known about the development of procrastination, the tendency to postpone undesirable but necessary tasks, during early childhood. Only one study has measured procrastination behavior in preschool children using a single behavioral task (Sutter et al., 2018). Thus, the present study investigated the emergence and development of everyday procrastination behavior in preschool children and to explore its relations with executive function an…
Adults’ perceptions of forgetful children: The impact of child age, domain, and memory type
Prospective memory (PM) tasks have been described as social in nature because carrying out one's intentions often has an impact on others. Despite the claim that PM errors [compared to retrospective memory (RM) errors] are perceived as character flaws, little empirical work has tested this assertion. In particular, no study has examined how adults perceive children's PM errors. Thus, the aim of the current studies was to examine adults' perceptio…
Constructing the Children’s Future Thinking Questionnaire: A reliable and valid measure of children’s future-oriented cognition
Future-oriented cognition (planning, prospective memory, episodic foresight, saving, and delay of gratification) involves a critical set of skills that children must develop for successful daily functioning. The current study developed the Children's Future Thinking Questionnaire (CFTQ), a parent-report on 3- to 7-year-olds' future-oriented cognition. The CFTQ showed high internal consistency and detected development of future-oriented cognition …
Neural systems for reflected and direct self-appraisals in Chinese young adults: Exploring the role of the temporal-parietal junction
In combination with previous research, these findings increase support for a role of the TPJ in self-appraisal processes, particularly when Chinese young adults consider peer perspectives. The possible functional contributions provided by the TPJ are explored and discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
The development of prospective memory in children: An executive framework
The Children’s Social Understanding Scale: Construction and validation of a parent-report measure for assessing individual differences in children’s theories of mind
Children's theory of mind (ToM) is typically measured with laboratory assessments of performance. Although these measures have generated a wealth of informative data concerning developmental progressions in ToM, they may be less useful as the sole source of information about individual differences in ToM and their relation to other facets of development. In the current research, we aimed to expand the repertoire of methods available for measuring…
The development of time-based prospective memory in childhood: The role of working memory updating
This large-scale study examined the development of time-based prospective memory (PM) across childhood and the roles that working memory updating and time monitoring play in driving age effects in PM performance. One hundred and ninety-seven children aged 5 to 14 years completed a time-based PM task where working memory updating load was manipulated within individuals using a dual task design. Results revealed age-related increases in PM performa…
The Children’s Social Understanding Scale: Construction and validation of a parent-report measure for assessing individual differences in children’s theories of mind
Children's theory of mind (ToM) is typically measured with laboratory assessments of performance. Although these measures have generated a wealth of informative data concerning developmental progressions in ToM, they may be less useful as the sole source of information about individual differences in ToM and their relation to other facets of development. In the current research, we aimed to expand the repertoire of methods available for measuring…
The development of time-based prospective memory in childhood: The role of working memory updating
This large-scale study examined the development of time-based prospective memory (PM) across childhood and the roles that working memory updating and time monitoring play in driving age effects in PM performance. One hundred and ninety-seven children aged 5 to 14 years completed a time-based PM task where working memory updating load was manipulated within individuals using a dual task design. Results revealed age-related increases in PM performa…
The emergence of procrastination in early childhood: Relations with executive control and future-oriented cognition
Little is known about the development of procrastination, the tendency to postpone undesirable but necessary tasks, during early childhood. Only one study has measured procrastination behavior in preschool children using a single behavioral task (Sutter et al., 2018). Thus, the present study investigated the emergence and development of everyday procrastination behavior in preschool children and to explore its relations with executive function an…
Constructing the Children’s Future Thinking Questionnaire: A reliable and valid measure of children’s future-oriented cognition
Future-oriented cognition (planning, prospective memory, episodic foresight, saving, and delay of gratification) involves a critical set of skills that children must develop for successful daily functioning. The current study developed the Children's Future Thinking Questionnaire (CFTQ), a parent-report on 3- to 7-year-olds' future-oriented cognition. The CFTQ showed high internal consistency and detected development of future-oriented cognition …
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment
The development of prospective memory in children: An executive framework
The Children’s Social Understanding Scale: Construction and validation of a parent-report measure for assessing individual differences in children’s theories of mind
Children's theory of mind (ToM) is typically measured with laboratory assessments of performance. Although these measures have generated a wealth of informative data concerning developmental progressions in ToM, they may be less useful as the sole source of information about individual differences in ToM and their relation to other facets of development. In the current research, we aimed to expand the repertoire of methods available for measuring…
The development of time-based prospective memory in childhood: The role of working memory updating
This large-scale study examined the development of time-based prospective memory (PM) across childhood and the roles that working memory updating and time monitoring play in driving age effects in PM performance. One hundred and ninety-seven children aged 5 to 14 years completed a time-based PM task where working memory updating load was manipulated within individuals using a dual task design. Results revealed age-related increases in PM performa…
Neural systems for reflected and direct self-appraisals in Chinese young adults: Exploring the role of the temporal-parietal junction
In combination with previous research, these findings increase support for a role of the TPJ in self-appraisal processes, particularly when Chinese young adults consider peer perspectives. The possible functional contributions provided by the TPJ are explored and discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
Constructing the Children’s Future Thinking Questionnaire: A reliable and valid measure of children’s future-oriented cognition
Future-oriented cognition (planning, prospective memory, episodic foresight, saving, and delay of gratification) involves a critical set of skills that children must develop for successful daily functioning. The current study developed the Children's Future Thinking Questionnaire (CFTQ), a parent-report on 3- to 7-year-olds' future-oriented cognition. The CFTQ showed high internal consistency and detected development of future-oriented cognition …
Adults’ perceptions of forgetful children: The impact of child age, domain, and memory type
Prospective memory (PM) tasks have been described as social in nature because carrying out one's intentions often has an impact on others. Despite the claim that PM errors [compared to retrospective memory (RM) errors] are perceived as character flaws, little empirical work has tested this assertion. In particular, no study has examined how adults perceive children's PM errors. Thus, the aim of the current studies was to examine adults' perceptio…
Episodic thought in development: On the relation between memory and future thinking
Extensive research from cognitive neuroscience has shown that episodic memory and future thinking are related processes and has given rise to theories attempting to explain these similarities, but developmental research has only minimally been considered. We argue that developmental research is fundamental to understanding the association between episodic memory and future thinking and that existing neurocognitive theories do not fully accommodat…
Procrastination in early childhood: Associations with self-regulation, negative affectivity, and the home environment
The emergence of procrastination in early childhood: Relations with executive control and future-oriented cognition
Little is known about the development of procrastination, the tendency to postpone undesirable but necessary tasks, during early childhood. Only one study has measured procrastination behavior in preschool children using a single behavioral task (Sutter et al., 2018). Thus, the present study investigated the emergence and development of everyday procrastination behavior in preschool children and to explore its relations with executive function an…
Special Issue Introduction: Bringing Theory to the Forefront of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Children’s saving: A review and proposed ecological framework
Children begin to save money and items at 3 years of age. • Children’s saving is related to cognitive abilities, personality, and social factors. • Short-term interventions or education programs can facilitate children’s saving. • We propose a novel ecological framework to better understand children’s saving. • Personal characteristics, the environment, and their interactions play a role in the development of children’s saving. Saving, defined as…
Differential attentional demands on implicit and explicit associative memory in children 8–12 years old
Associative memory improves during childhood, suggesting an age-related improvement in the binding mechanism responsible for linking information together. However, tasks designed to measure associative memory not only measure binding, but also place demands on attention. This makes it difficult to dissociate age-related improvements in memory from the development of attention. One way to reduce attentional demands is to test memory implicitly ver…
Constructive episodic simulation, self-projection, and scene construction: Investigating the mechanisms of children's episodic thinking
Constructive episodic simulation, self-projection, and scene construction are three prominent cognitive mechanisms posited to underpin episodic thinking. This study investigated whether these mechanisms explain individual differences in children's episodic thinking and relations to other related abilities during middle childhood (i.e., imagination, perspective-taking, and spatial navigation). A sample of 150 Canadian children aged 8 to 10 years c…
Psychology (12 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Cognitive Functions and Memory (4 works) · Episodic memory (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Autobiographical memory (3 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works)