Rachel B. Thibodeau-Nielsen

TL;DR: In this article, a repeated-measures design was used to evaluate the auditory-visual recognition of sentences recorded in background noise with transparent and opaque face masks, and without a mask (N=154).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether preschoolers' social and solitary pretend play over the course of one preschool year predicted growth in inhibitory control, a key component of EF.

TL;DR: This article found that fantastical pretense, but not other styles of pretense/play, facilitates EF development among non-Head Start, middle-class children and Head Start children did not benefit, perhaps due to lower levels of engagement as well as lower initial EF levels and propensities towards pretense.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether pretend play behaviors among a sample of 191 Head Start preschoolers predicted EF outcomes in first grade, and found that pretend play mitigated the adverse consequences of cumulative risk on children's EF development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the process by which COVID-19 economic hardships experienced by a family were related to children's emotional well-being and development and investigated how this process may vary as a function of children's engagement in pandemic-related pretend play.