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Lervag, Arne; Braten, Ivar; Hulme, Charles – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The authors present the results of a 2-year longitudinal study of 228 Norwegian children beginning some 12 months before formal reading instruction began. The relationships between a range of cognitive and linguistic skills (letter knowledge, phoneme manipulation, visual-verbal paired-associate learning, rapid automatized naming (RAN), short-term…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonemes, Early Reading, Paired Associate Learning
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Dewar, Kathryn; Xu, Fei – Developmental Psychology, 2007
In 3 experiments, 9-month-old infants' expectations for what distinct count noun labels refer to were investigated. In Experiment 1, a box was opened to reveal 2 objects inside during familiarization: either 2 identical objects or 2 different objects. Test trials followed the same procedure, except before the box was opened, the contents were…
Descriptors: Nouns, Infants, Expectation, Familiarity
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Howe, Mark L. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Improvements in 5- and 7-year-olds' acquisition and retention of related concept pairings were examined when additional similarities and differences between pair members were provided. Using a standard paired-associate learning paradigm, children learned 18 related picture pairs; some of the children either were given or produced additional…
Descriptors: Memory, Paired Associate Learning, Recall (Psychology), Young Children