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Preschoolers' Use of Talker Information in On-Line Comprehension
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Creel, Sarah C. – Child Development, 2012
A crucial part of language development is learning how various social and contextual language-external factors constrain an utterance's meaning. This learning process is poorly understood. Five experiments addressed one hundred thirty-one 3- to 5-year-old children's use of one such socially relevant information source: talker characteristics.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Information Sources, Language Acquisition, Reading Comprehension
Effects of Stimulus Availability on Children's Inferences
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Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Learning Processes
Categorization and Memory Retrieval by Three-Month-Olds.
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Hayne, Harlene; And Others – Child Development, 1987
Infants were tested in three studies of the acquisition and long-term retention of category-specific information. Results document retention of category-specific information after intervals of two weeks. (PCB)
Descriptors: Classification, Infants, Learning Processes, Long Term Memory
Intermodal Learning in Infancy: Learning on the Basis of Two Kinds of Invariant Relations in Audible and Visible Events.
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Bahrick, Lorraine E. – Child Development, 1988
Examines the development of intermodal perception in infancy by means of a new method, the intermodal learning method. Results support the claim that only subjects who had been familiarized with appropriate and synchronous film and soundtrack pairs showed evidence of intermodal learning. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Aural Learning, Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior
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
The Priority of Separable Perception in Stimulus Classifications of Children with Mental Retardation.
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Cook, Greg; Stephens, J. Todd – Child Development, 1995
Two experiments investigated perceptual primacy of dimensional and similarity relations in stimulus classification of mentally retarded children. Results support a distinction between separable and integral stimulus structures, but do not support an integral-to-separable shift in perceptual development. Results suggest implications for…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Classification, Cognitive Development
The Effects of Verbal and Visual Highlighting on Discrimination Learning By Preschoolers and Second Graders
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Yussen, Steven R. – Child Development, 1972
Results revealed that (1) relevant verbal experience facilitated learning only for preschoolers, (2) irrelevant verbal experience did not interfere with learning, and (3) visual highlighting exerted no significant effects. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Grade 2, Learning Processes
Developmental Differences in Visual Backward Masking.
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Lawrence, Virginia W.; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Results of two experiments minimizing verbal encoding and response demands indicate that when the ceiling effects in no-mask target recognition are removed, the visual information processing rates for children and adults can be considered equivalent. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Higher Education
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