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Bebko, James M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Tests 64 deaf students from oral and total communication settings to examine whether a deficiency in spontaneous strategy use accounts for their verbal short-term memory performance. Spontaneous rehearsal of both deaf samples seemed to emerge later than the hearing sample's and was inefficiently implemented and less effective in mediating recall…
Descriptors: Deafness, Learning Strategies, Oral Communication Method, Recall (Psychology)
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Chuah, Y. M. Lisa; Maybery, Murray T. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
Used a variance-partitioning procedure to identify age-related and age-invariant components of verbal and spatial memory span in 6- to 12-year olds. Concluded that verbal and spatial short-term memory appear to rely on similar processes when serial recall is required and that development in span is closely tied to increases in processing speed.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Articulation (Speech), Children, Cognitive Processes
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Gulya, Michele; Sweeney, Becky; Rovee-Collier, Carolyn – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
Three experiments demonstrated that increasing the length of a mobile serial list impaired 6-month olds' memory for serial order. Findings indicated that the primacy effect was absent on a 24-hour delayed recognition test and was exhibited on a reactivation test, adding to growing evidence that young infants possess two functionally distinct…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior, Infants, Long Term Memory