AUTHOR=Zheng Yuanxia , Li Danyang , Chen Zhongqi , Liu Guoxiong TITLE=Picture book reading on the development of preschoolers in rural areas of China: Effects on language, inhibition, and theory of mind JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=13 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1030520 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1030520 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Studies have shown that book reading intervention may scaffold children's language development. However, whether book reading interventions are equally effective for children's cognitive development in a Chinese rural school setting remains to be explored. We conducted a four-month book reading intervention to address these issues in rural Chinese areas. A total of three hundred twenty-one children aged between 2.56 and 6.47 years (