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Bauml, Karl-Heinz T.; Kliegl, Oliver – Journal of Memory and Language, 2013
Proactive interference (PI) refers to the finding that memory for recently studied (target) information can be vastly impaired by the previous study of other (nontarget) information. PI can be reduced in a number of ways, for instance, by directed forgetting of the prior nontarget information, the testing of the prior nontarget information, or an…
Descriptors: Memory, Evidence, Children, Reaction Time
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Bouwmeester, Samantha; Verkoeijen, Peter P. J. L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
Retrieval practice of previously studied information seems to be more effective in the long run than restudying the information--a phenomenon called the "testing effect". In the present study, we investigated whether individual differences in the testing effect can be attributed to variation in gist trace processing. One-hundred-thirty-one…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Testing, Individual Differences, Cognitive Processes
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Clackson, Kaili; Felser, Claudia; Clahsen, Harald – Journal of Memory and Language, 2011
This study examined how 6-9 year-old English-speaking children and adults establish anaphoric dependencies during auditory sentence comprehension. Using eye-movement monitoring during listening and a corresponding sentence-picture judgment task, we investigated both the ultimate interpretation and the online processing of reflexives in comparison…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Time Management, English
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Archibald, Lisa M. D.; Gathercole, Susan E. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
This study investigated the verbal and visuospatial processing and storage skills of children with SLI and typically developing children. Fourteen school-age children with SLI, and two groups of typically developing children matched either for age or language abilities, completed measures of processing speed and storage capacity, and a set of…
Descriptors: Memory, Control Groups, Language Impairments, Child Development