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Fabio, Rosa Angela; Caprì, Tindara – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2015
Background: Episodic autobiographical memory (EAM) has not been extensively investigated in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The objective of this study was to examine EAM in school-age children with ADHD in reference to the encoding period: recent memories (previous school years) and remote memories (first years of…
Descriptors: Memory, Autobiographies, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Elementary School Students
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Brown, Charity; Brandimonte, Maria A.; Wickham, Lee H. V.; Bosco, Andrea; Schooler, Jonathan W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Verbal overshadowing reflects the impairment in memory performance following verbalization of nonverbal stimuli. However, it is not clear whether the same mechanisms are responsible for verbal overshadowing effects observed with different stimuli and task demands. In the present article, we propose a multiprocess view that reconciles the main…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Memory, Verbal Communication, Stimuli
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Borella, Erika; Carretti, Barbara; Cantarella, Alessandra; Riboldi, Francesco; Zavagnin, Michela; De Beni, Rossana – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to test the efficacy of a visuospatial working memory (WM) training in terms of its transfer effects and maintenance effects, in the young-old and old-old. Forty young-old and 40 old-old adults took part in the study. Twenty participants in each age group received training with a visuospatial WM task, whereas…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Short Term Memory, Transfer of Training
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Palladino, Paola; Cornoldi, Cesare – Learning & Individual Differences, 2004
It has been suggested that the ability to learn a foreign language is related to working memory. However, there is no clear evidence about which component of working memory may be involved. Two experiments investigated working memory problems in groups of seventh and eighth grade Italian children with difficulties in learning English as a second…
Descriptors: Memory, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning