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Gulya, Michele; Sweeney, Becky; Rovee-Collier, Carolyn – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
Three experiments demonstrated that increasing the length of a mobile serial list impaired 6-month olds' memory for serial order. Findings indicated that the primacy effect was absent on a 24-hour delayed recognition test and was exhibited on a reactivation test, adding to growing evidence that young infants possess two functionally distinct…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior, Infants, Long Term Memory
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Richardson, John T. E. – Cognitive Psychology, 1979
A system of precategorized acoustic storage has accounted for the recency effect obtained in the immediate serial recall of sequences of digits, consonants, or syllables. Four experiments in recall of word sequences investigated fit to this model. A system of postcategorical lexical storage was concluded to explain the results. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Cohen, Ronald L.; Nealson, Judi – Intelligence, 1979
Retarded subjects were compared with mental- and chronological-age matched controls on serial short-term memory (STM) tasks. Retarded subjects were inferior to the control groups on both primacy and recency items, under two recall conditions. These data are discussed in relation to possible mechanisms underlying IQ-related individual differences…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences