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Dunning, Darren L.; Holmes, Joni; Gathercole, Susan E. – Developmental Science, 2013
Children with low working memory typically make poor educational progress, and it has been speculated that difficulties in meeting the heavy working memory demands of the classroom may be a contributory factor. Intensive working memory training has been shown to boost performance on untrained memory tasks in a variety of populations. This first…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Short Term Memory, Young Children, Preadolescents
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Leslie, Alan M.; Chen, Marian L. – Developmental Science, 2007
Looking-time studies examined whether 11-month-old infants can individuate two pairs of objects using only shape information. In order to test individuation, the object pairs were presented sequentially. Infants were familiarized either with the sequential pairs, disk-triangle/disk-triangle (XY/XY), whose shapes differed within but not across…
Descriptors: Infants, Short Term Memory, Geometric Concepts, Evaluation Methods