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Peer reviewedGarber, Philip; Alibali, Martha Wagner; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Child Development, 1998
Investigated whether fourth-graders' gestures convey knowledge self-recognizable in another context. Identified math problem-solving procedures conveyed gesturally and examined whether the procedures could be accessed by the same child on a task not involving gesture. Children rated higher those solutions derived from procedures they conveyed…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Peer reviewedKuhn, Deanna – Child Development, 2000
Suggests that the study of memory needs to be situated within broader conceptual and research contexts. Examines how four contexts accommodate memory phenomena: (1) knowledge; (2) comprehension; (3) context/function; and (4) strategy. Suggests that memories are best examined as knowledge structures resulting from efforts to understand, and that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Comprehension
