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Neurodevelopmental Effects of Early Deprivation in Postinstitutionalized Children
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Pollak, Seth D.; Nelson, Charles A.; Schlaak, Mary F.; Roeber, Barbara J.; Wewerka, Sandi S.; Wiik, Kristen L.; Frenn, Kristin A.; Loman, Michelle M.; Gunnar, Megan R. – Child Development, 2010
The neurodevelopmental sequelae of early deprivation were examined by testing (N = 132) 8- and 9-year-old children who had endured prolonged versus brief institutionalized rearing or rearing in the natal family. Behavioral tasks included measures that permit inferences about underlying neural circuitry. Children raised in institutionalized…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Memory, Disadvantaged Environment, Inferences
Memory Factors in Vowel Discrimination of Normal and At-Risk Infants
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Swoboda, Philip J.; And Others – Child Development, 1978
The role of memory factors in the vowel discrimination of normal and at-risk 8-week-old infants was examined by studying the categorical versus continuous discrimination of very brief vowels in a nonnutritive sucking paradigm. Discrimination of the silent delay interval between the last familiar and the first novel stimulus was also examined.…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Infants, Memory
Selective Attention Deficits in Poor Readers? Dichotic Listening, Speeded Classification, and Auditory and Visual Central and Incidental Learning Tasks.
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Pelham, William E. – Child Development, 1979
Results as a whole did not support the hypothesis that poor readers show deficits in selective attention relative to age-matched normal readers. (RH)
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Perception, Classification, Cognitive Development