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Can Bilingualism Mitigate Set-Shifting Difficulties in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders?
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Gonzalez-Barrero, Ana Maria; Nadig, Aparna S. – Child Development, 2019
This study investigated the effects of bilingualism on set-shifting and working memory in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Bilinguals with ASD were predicted to display a specific bilingual advantage in set-shifting, but not working memory, relative to monolinguals with ASD. Forty 6- to 9-year-old children participated (20 ASD, 20…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Short Term Memory
Visual Short-Term Memory for Complex Objects in 6- and 8-Month-Old Infants
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Kwon, Mee-Kyoung; Luck, Steven J.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Child Development, 2014
Infants' visual short-term memory (VSTM) for simple objects undergoes dramatic development: Six-month-old infants can store in VSTM information about only a simple object presented in isolation, whereas 8-month-old infants can store information about simple objects presented in multiple-item arrays. This study extended this work to examine…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Age Differences
Age-related Changes in Confusion between Memories for Thoughts and Memories for Speech.
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Foley, Mary Ann; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Demonstrated that six-year-olds performed as well as 17-year-olds in discriminating self-generated memories from memories that were the result of external presentation. However, six-year-olds were not as adept as nine-year-olds in discriminating what they had said earlier from what they had only thought. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
Children's Memory for Oblique Orientation: A Matter of Degree?
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Fisher, Celia B.; Heincke, Susanne – Child Development, 1982
Experiment I establishes that the ability to remember the slope of a line develops between three and four years of age. In Experiment II, 15 children with a mean age of four years and six months who had discriminated both slope and left-right problems under successive presentation were tested on these same discriminations under simultaneous…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Memory, Oblique Rotation
Effect of Spatial Separation of Stimuli on Children's Discrimination Learning
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Etaugh, Claire F.; Pope, Barbara K. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Hyperactivity and Incidental Memory: Evidence for Attentional Diffusion.
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Ceci, Stephen J.; Tishman, Jayne – Child Development, 1984
Two experiments examined hyperactive children's tendency to underfocus their attention during learning. Taken together, the results of both experiments demonstrated the validity of the attentional diffusion hypothesis and indicate the need to assess the central processing demands associated with central and incidental learning in order to evaluate…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Deficit Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level
The Role of Stimulus Alignment in Children's Memory for Line Orientation.
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Fisher, Celia B. – Child Development, 1982
In the first experiment, 16 kindergarten children were tested on vertical/horizontal and oblique discriminations in symmetrical and asymmetrical alignments. When stimuli were asymmetrically aligned, the former discrimination was learned as rapidly as the latter. The second experiment demonstrated that the influence of configurational cues in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children
Developmental Differences in Visual and Auditory Processing of Complex Sentences.
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Booth, James R.; MacWhinney, Brian; Harasaki, Yasuaki – Child Development, 2000
Visual and auditory processing of complex sentences was examined among 8- through 11-year-olds. Findings suggested a U-shaped learning pattern for on-line processing of restrictive relative clauses. Off-line accuracy scores showed different patterns for good and poor comprehenders. Incorrect local attachment strategy use was related to sentence…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Children, Cognitive Processes