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Christine Coughlin; Athula Pudhiyidath; Hannah E. Roome; Nicole L. Varga; Kim V. Nguyen; Alison R. Preston – Developmental Science, 2024
Adults remember items with shared contexts as occurring closer in time to one another than those associated with different contexts, even when their objective temporal distance is fixed. Such temporal memory biases are thought to reflect within-event integration and between-event differentiation processes that organize events according to their…
Descriptors: Memory, Children, Adults, Age Differences
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Amrita Bains; Annaliese Barber; Tau Nell; Pablo Ripollés; Saloni Krishnan – Developmental Science, 2024
Relatively little work has focused on why we are motivated to learn words. In adults, recent experiments have shown that intrinsic reward signals accompany successful word learning from context. In addition, the experience of reward facilitated long-term memory for words. In adolescence, developmental changes are seen in reward and motivation…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Children, Adolescents, Motivation
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Rebecca A. Charlton; Goldie A. McQuaid; Nancy Raitano Lee; Gregory L. Wallace – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Objective: Self-reported memory difficulties are common among older adults, but few studies have examined memory problems among autistic middle-aged and older people. The current study examines self-rated prospective (PM) and retrospective (RM) memory difficulties and their associations with age in middle-aged and older autistic and non-autistic…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Memory, Age Differences, Older Adults
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Catharina Tibken; Tobias Richter; Wienke Wannagat – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: To understand complex expository text, readers often engage in metacognitive comprehension monitoring. Metacognitive monitoring is assumed to rely on basic cognitive abilities (working memory updating, short-term memory, verbal intelligence). These abilities decrease in later adulthood. We thus compared younger and older adults in their…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cognitive Ability, Performance, Age Differences
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Vanessa R. Cerda; Nicole Y. Wicha – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2024
In 2020, 21.5% of US preschoolers spoke a language other than English at home. These children transition into English-speaking classrooms in different ways, often handling foundational concepts in two languages. Critically, some knowledge may be dependent on the language of learning. For instance, both bilingual children and adults typically…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Bilingual Students, Memory, Bilingualism
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Chen Kuang; Xiaoxiang Chen; Fei Chen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Age, babble noise, and working memory have been found to affect the recognition of emotional prosody based on non-tonal languages, yet little is known about how exactly they influence tone-language-speaking children's recognition of emotional prosody. In virtue of the tectonic theory of Stroop effects and the Ease of Language Understanding (ELU)…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese, Children, Adults
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Jessica Nicosia; David A. Balota – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Mind-wandering (MW) is a universal cognitive process that is estimated to comprise [approximately] 30% of our everyday thoughts. Despite its prevalence, the functional utility of MW remains a scientific blind spot. The present study sought to investigate whether MW serves a functional role in cognition. Specifically, we investigated whether MW…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Memory, Age Differences
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Alain Fritsch; Virginie Voltzenlogel; Christine Cuervo-Lombard – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Little research has examined changes in personal identity over different periods of adult development. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to target these changes through the characterization of the main dimensions in self-defining memories (SDMs; thematic content, specificity, integrative meaning, tension, contamination/redemption,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Young Adults, Older Adults
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Pociunaite, Justina; Zimprich, Daniel; Wolf, Tabea – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Previous studies have found that in nonclinical samples centrality of positive events is usually higher than centrality of negative events. In this study, we investigated the centrality and its relation to valence by considering additional predictor variables (i.e., intensity, time since event, self-concept clarity) as well as age group…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Memory, Adults, Experience
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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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Maria Kaltsa; Despina Papadopoulou – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The aim of the study is to examine the effect of sentential context on lexical ambiguity resolution in Greek adults and typically developing children. Context and word frequency are factors that can affect lexical processing, however, the role of them has not been thoroughly examined in Greek. To this aim, we assessed sentence context effects in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Children, Language Processing
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Gitit Kavé; Maayan Sayag; Mira Goral – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Previous research has demonstrated conflicting findings concerning orthographic access in older age. The current study examines whether older adults rely more heavily on stored knowledge while spelling, through testing of word concreteness. Forty-one younger (age 20-29), 41 middle age (age 45-55), and 40 healthy older adults (age 70-80) spelled 60…
Descriptors: Spelling, Young Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Jensen, Rikke A. A.; Kirkegaard Thomsen, Dorthe; O'Connor, Maja; Mehlsen, Mimi Y. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
We examined whether age differences in life stories and personality traits mediated age differences in subjective well-being. One hundred one young, 77 middle-aged, and 81 older participants completed measures of subjective well-being and personality traits. They described chapters and specific memories in their life stories and rated these on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Biographies, Personality Traits, Well Being
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Rousselle, Manon; Abadie, Marlène; Blaye, Agnès; Camos, Valérie – Developmental Psychology, 2023
False memories are well established episodic memory phenomena. Recent research in young adults has shown that semantically related associates can be falsely remembered as studied items in working memory (WM) tasks for lists of only a few items when a short 4-second interval was given between study and test. The present study reported two…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Task Analysis, Adults, Age Differences
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Ewing, Louise; Mares, Inês; Edwards, S. Gareth; Smith, Marie L. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
It is considerably harder to generalize identity across different pictures of unfamiliar faces, compared with familiar faces. This finding hints strongly at qualitatively distinct processing of unfamiliar face stimuli--for which we have less expertise. Yet, the extent to which face selective versus generic visual processes drive outcomes during…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Human Body, Accuracy, Task Analysis
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