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  • Cognitive Development
  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Temporal cognition is crucial for cognitive development.
  • Understanding how children develop a sense of time is key to cognitive research.
  • Existing research highlights event-dependency in early temporal understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To outline the developmental trajectory of temporal thinking in preschoolers.
  • To differentiate between event-dependent and event-independent temporal perspectives.
  • To propose a model for the emergence of mature temporal cognition.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of temporal cognition development.
  • Distinction of three developmental stages of temporal perspective.
  • Theoretical framework linking event-dependency to temporal understanding.

Main Results:

  • Temporal cognition evolves from event-dependent to event-independent representations.
  • Three distinct perspectives on time emerge sequentially during development.
  • Mature temporal perspective relies on an event-independent, linear framework.

Conclusions:

  • Children's temporal thinking progresses through distinct developmental stages.
  • The ability to represent time independently of specific events marks mature temporal cognition.
  • Understanding these developmental shifts informs educational and psychological interventions.