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Dixon, Wallace E., Jr.; Lawman, Hannah G.; Johnson, Elizabeth B. H.; May, Sarah; Patton, Leslie A.; Lowe, Allison K.; Snyder, Courtney M. – Infancy, 2012
We explored the role that exogenous and endogenous competitors for attention play in infants' abilities to encode and retain information over a 6-month period. Sixty-six children visited the laboratory at 15 months, and 32 returned for a second visit at 21 months. Children observed models of conventional- relation and enabling-relation action…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Toddlers, Infants, Attention Control
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Vanderberg, Robert; Swanson, H. Lee – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
This study investigated the relationship between components of working memory (WM) and the macrostructure (e.g., planning, writing, and revision) and microstructure (e.g., grammar, punctuation) of writing. A battery of WM and writing measures were administered to 160 high-school students. Overall, hierarchical regression analyses showed that the…
Descriptors: Memory, Prewriting, Writing Processes, Revision (Written Composition)