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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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List, Judith A.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Challenges the notion that long-term memory retrieval efficiency is a potential source of individual and developmental differences in cognitive functioning. Fourth-grade, eighth-grade, and college-aged subjects participated in a task using the Posner letter matching paradigm and were assessed with tests of verbal and spatial ability. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, Cognitive Development
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Newcombe, Nora; Fox, Nathan A. – Child Development, 1994
Eight- through 11-year-olds watched photographic slides of faces of former preschool classmates and controls, once while their skin conductance was measured and again while reporting whether or not they recognized the faces. Both verbal report and skin conductance data showed low but above-chance differentiation between children's response to…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Individual Differences, Long Term Memory
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Peterson, Carole; Bell, Michael – Child Development, 1996
Three- through 13-year olds were interviewed a few days after a hospital stay for traumatic injury, and again six months later. Children provided considerable information about the injury and hospital stay and made few commission errors; children's distress at the time of injury did not affect their recall of the event, but distress during the…
Descriptors: Children, Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Injuries