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Forest, Tess Allegra; Abolghasem, Zahra; Finn, Amy S.; Schlichting, Margaret L. – Child Development, 2023
Trajectories of cognitive and neural development suggest that, despite early emergence, the ability to extract environmental patterns changes across childhood. Here, 5- to 9-year-olds and adults (N = 211, 110 females, in a large Canadian city) completed a memory test assessing what they remembered after watching a stream of shape triplets: the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Memory, Tests
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Ngo, Chi T.; Newcombe, Nora S.; Olson, Ingrid R. – Child Development, 2019
Episodic memory relies on discriminating among similar elements of episodes. Mnemonic discrimination is relatively poor at age 4, and then improves markedly. We investigated whether motivation to encode items with fine-grain resolution would change this picture of development, using an engaging computer-administered memory task in which a bird ate…
Descriptors: Memory, Mnemonics, Cognitive Processes, Age Differences
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Wang, Jing-Yi; Weber, Frederik D.; Zinke, Katharina; Inostroza, Marion; Born, Jan – Child Development, 2018
Abilities to encode and remember events in their spatiotemporal context (episodic memory) rely on brain regions that mature late during childhood and are supported by sleep. We compared the temporal dynamics of episodic memory formation and the role of sleep in this process between 62 children (8-12 years) and 57 adults (18-37 years). Subjects…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Adults, Sleep, Comparative Analysis
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Geurten, Marie; Lloyd, Marianne; Willems, Sylvie – Child Development, 2017
Previous research has suggested that fluency does not influence memory decisions until ages 7-8. In two experiments (n = 96 and n = 64, respectively), children, aged 4, 6, and 8 years (Experiments 1 and 2), and adults (Experiment 2) studied a list of pictures. Participants completed a recognition test during which each study item was preceded by a…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Young Children, Children, Memory
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Shimi, Andria; Nobre, Anna C.; Astle, Duncan; Scerif, Gaia – Child Development, 2014
How does developing attentional control operate within visual short-term memory (VSTM)? Seven-year-olds, 11-year-olds, and adults (total n = 205) were asked to report whether probe items were part of preceding visual arrays. In Experiment 1, central or peripheral cues oriented attention to the location of to-be-probed items either prior to…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Children, Adults
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Sommerville, Jessica A.; Bernstein, Daniel M.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 2013
A novel task, using a continuous spatial layout, was created to investigate the degree to which (in centimeters) 3-year-old children's ("N" = 63), 5-year-old children's ("N" = 60), and adults' ("N" = 60) own privileged knowledge of the location of an object biased their representation of a…
Descriptors: Bias, Preschool Children, Adults, Beliefs
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Phillips, Brenda; Seston, Rebecca; Kelemen, Deborah – Child Development, 2012
Prior research has found that toddlers will form enduring artifact categories after direct exposure to an adult using a novel tool. Four studies explored whether 2- (N = 48) and 3-year-olds (N = 32) demonstrate this same capacity when learning by eavesdropping. After surreptitiously observing an adult use 1 of 2 artifacts to operate a bell via a…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Adults, Familiarity, Observational Learning
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Sayfan, Liat; Harvey, Christina – Child Development, 2014
Four- to 10-year-olds' and adults' (N = 263) ability to inhibit privileged knowledge and simulate a naïve perspective were examined. Participants viewed pictures that were then occluded aside from a small ambiguous part. They offered suggestions for how a naïve person might interpret the hidden pictures, as well as rated the probability…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Inhibition, Perspective Taking
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Cowan, Nelson; Nugent, Lara D.; Elliott, Emily M.; Ponomarev, Igor; Saults, J. Scott – Child Development, 1999
This study examined ability of first and fourth graders and adults to recall digits they heard while they were carrying out a visual task. Results suggested that each individual has a core memory capacity limit that can be observed in circumstances in which it cannot be supplemented by mnemonic strategies. The capacity limit increases with age…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Children
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Pezdek, Kathy – Child Development, 1987
Assessed the effect of the amount of physical detail in pictures on the picture recognition memory of 7- and 9-year-olds, young adults, and adults over 68. For each age group, recognition accuracy was significantly higher for pictures presented in the simple rather than the complex form. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adults, Long Term Memory, Memory, Preadolescents
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Friedman, William J. – Child Development, 2007
In two studies of knowledge about the properties and processes of memory for the times of past events, 178 children from 5 through 13 years of age and 40 adults answered questions about how they would remember times on different scales, how temporal memory is affected by retention interval, and the usefulness of different methods. The adults…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Memory, Children, Adults
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Van Leijenhorst, Linda; Crone, Eveline A.; Van der Molen, Maurits W. – Child Development, 2007
This study examined developmental trends in object and spatial working memory (WM) using heart rate (HR) to provide an index of covert cognitive processes. Participants in 4 age groups (6-7, 9-10, 11-12, 18-26, n=20 each) performed object and spatial WM tasks, in which each trial was followed by feedback. Spatial WM task performance reached adult…
Descriptors: Memory, Feedback, Children, Spatial Ability
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Kirasic, Kathleen C.; And Others – Child Development, 1980
After studying photographs of real-world scenes, kindergartners, fourth graders, and adults were tested on their recognition memory in the landmark-in-context condition. For testing, the original scenes were paired with three types of foils: different landmark/different context, different landmark/original context, and original landmark/different…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Memory
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Stein, Nancy L.; Feldman, S. Shirley – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary School Students, Memory, Recognition
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Plumert, Jodie M.; Hund, Alycia M. – Child Development, 2001
Two experiments investigated the role of spatial prototypes in estimates of location. Found that adults and children ages 7 to 11 years overestimated distances between target locations in different regions and that none displaced objects toward the region centers. Even with boundaries removed during testing, adults and children overestimated…
Descriptors: Adults, Bias, Children, Comparative Analysis
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