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Hannes Rakoczy

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Open access Sep 2026

Three‐year‐old Children Make Explicit Metacognitive Judgments – If Asked Appropriately

ABSTRACT Metacognition—the capacity to represent and reflect upon our knowledge and its sources—is fundamental for higher cognition and learning. Developmental research suggests that the ability to make explicit metacognitive judgments emerges surprisingly late, not before school age. However, this research has assumed...

M. Meyer, Marina Proft, Jan M. Engelmann et al. · 0 citations
Open access Jul 2026

Understanding possibility through action: Young children's modal reasoning in agentive contexts.

When does the ability to reason about alternative possibilities emerge during cognitive development? This has been a matter of considerable dispute. Conservative accounts assume that modal reasoning emerges relatively late, not before age 4 (Carey et al., 2020). Evidence for these accounts comes from tasks where childr...

Leonie Baumann, L. P. Schidelko, Marina Proft et al. · 0 citations

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