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Sleep Electroencephalogram (EEG) Oscillations and Associated Memory Processing during Childhood and Early Adolescence
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Kurz, Eva-Maria; Zinke, Katharina; Born, Jan – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The architecture of sleep undergoes distinct changes during childhood and early adolescence. Slow wave sleep is involved in memory processing and may support active consolidation of newly encoded representations to support the formation of abstracted "gist" memories. Here, we examined sleep and overnight memory formation in German school…
Descriptors: Sleep, Diagnostic Tests, Cognitive Processes, Age Differences
Developmental Changes of Sleep Spindles and Their Impact on Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation and General Cognitive Abilities: A Longitudinal Approach
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Hahn, Michael; Joechner, Ann-Kathrin; Roell, Judith; Schabus, Manuel; Heib, Dominik P. J.; Gruber, Georg; Peigneux, Philippe; Hoedlmoser, Kerstin – Developmental Science, 2019
Sleep spindles are related to sleep-dependent memory consolidation and general cognitive abilities. However, they undergo drastic maturational changes during adolescence. Here we used a longitudinal approach (across 7 years) to explore whether developmental changes in sleep spindle density can explain individual differences in sleep-dependent…
Descriptors: Sleep, Child Development, Memory, Cognitive Ability
Development of Ethnic, Racial, and National Prejudice in Childhood and Adolescence: A Multinational Meta-Analysis of Age Differences
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Raabe, Tobias; Beelmann, Andreas – Child Development, 2011
This meta-analysis summarizes 113 research reports worldwide (121 cross-sectional and 7 longitudinal studies) on age differences in ethnic, racial, or national prejudice among children and adolescents. Overall, results indicated a peak in prejudice in middle childhood (5-7 years) followed by a slight decrease until late childhood (8-10 years). In…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Memory, Meta Analysis, Case Studies
Mining the Middle School Mind
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Vawter, David – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
Middle school students are walking dichotomies. They can talk about world peace and then hit the kid next to them. They can recycle to ease global warming only to leave the cafeteria a mess. Why? Well, scientifically, it is because their brains do not work. When people look at middle school students, they can plainly see evidence of physical…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Maturity (Individuals), Middle Schools, Brain
Adolescents' Performance on the Iowa Gambling Task: Implications for the Development of Decision Making and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
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Hooper, Catalina J.; Luciana, Monica; Conklin, Heather M.; Yarger, Rebecca S. – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Healthy adolescents (79 girls, 66 boys), ages 9-17, completed the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT; A. Bechara, A. R. Damasio, H. Damasio, & S. W. Anderson, 1994) as well as working memory (digit span) and behavioral inhibition (go/no-go) tasks. Cross-sectional age-related changes were seen on all 3 tasks. Gender differences were seen in IGT deck…
Descriptors: Memory, Adolescents, Inhibition, Gender Differences
No Longer Deaf to Their Needs.
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Flaxbeard, Richard; Toomey, Wendy – British Journal of Special Education, 1987
The difficulties experienced by deaf parents' hearing children (n=10) as they approached puberty were studied and compensatory education programs sought for them through residential and regular schools. The children exhibited conversational difficulties, memory problems, reasoning difficulties, and poor language comprehension. Children's…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescent Development, Communication Disorders, Compensatory Education