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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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Adi-Japha, Esther; Badir, Rodayna; Dorfberger, Shoshi; Karni, Avi – Developmental Science, 2014
Are children better than adults in acquiring new skills ("how-to" knowledge) because of a difference in skill memory consolidation? Here we tested the proposal that, as opposed to adults, children's memories for newly acquired skills are immune to interference by subsequent experience. The establishment of long-term memory for a…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Memory, Children, Adults
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Bugden, Stephanie; Ansari, Daniel – Developmental Science, 2016
In the present study we examined whether children with Developmental Dyscalculia (DD) exhibit a deficit in the so-called "Approximate Number System" (ANS). To do so, we examined a group of elementary school children who demonstrated persistent low math achievement over 4 years and compared them to typically developing (TD), aged-matched…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Children, Spatial Ability, Short Term Memory
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Purser, Harry R. M.; Farran, Emily K.; Courbois, Yannick; Lemahieu, Axelle; Sockeel, Pascal; Mellier, Daniel; Blades, Mark – Developmental Science, 2015
The ability to navigate new environments has a significant impact on the daily life and independence of people with learning difficulties. The aims of this study were to investigate the development of route learning in Down syndrome (N = 50), Williams syndrome (N = 19), and typically developing children between 5 and 11 years old (N = 108); to…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Down Syndrome, Mental Retardation, Comparative Analysis
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Stanutz, Sandy; Wapnick, Joel; Burack, Jacob A. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Background: Pitch perception is enhanced among persons with autism. We extended this finding to memory for pitch and melody among school-aged children. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate pitch memory in musically untrained children with autism spectrum disorders, aged 7-13 years, and to compare it to that of age- and…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Early Adolescents
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Van Duijvenvoorde, Anna C. K.; Jansen, Brenda R. J.; Bredman, Joren C.; Huizenga, Hilde M. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Advantageous decision making progressively develops into early adulthood, most specifically in complex and motivationally salient decision situations in which direct feedback on gains and losses is provided (Figner & Weber, 2011). However, the factors that underlie this developmental improvement in decision making are still not well understood.…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Decision Making, Probability
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Kallai, Arava Y.; Tzelgov, Joseph – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
The representation of fractions in long-term memory (LTM) was investigated by examining the automatic processing of such numbers in a physical comparison task, and their intentional processing in a numerical comparison task. The size congruity effect (SiCE) served as a marker of automatic processing and consequently as an indicator of the access…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Long Term Memory, Mathematics
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Boets, Bart; De Smedt, Bert – Dyslexia, 2010
It has been suggested that individuals with dyslexia show poorer performance on those aspects of arithmetic that involve the manipulation of verbal representations, such as the use of fact retrieval strategies. The present study examined this in 13 children with dyslexia who showed normal general mathematics achievement and 16 matched controls.…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Dyslexia, Mathematics Achievement, Long Term Memory
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Curby, Kim M.; Glazek, Kuba; Gauthier, Isabel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is limited, especially for complex objects. Its capacity, however, is greater for faces than for other objects; this advantage may stem from the holistic nature of face processing. If the holistic processing explains this advantage, object expertise--which also relies on holistic processing--should endow experts…
Descriptors: Children, Motor Vehicles, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory
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Sotozaki, Hiroko; Parlow, Shelley – Brain and Language, 2006
The study investigated whether inefficient interhemispheric communication is involved in developmental dyslexia using multiple tasks. A finger localization task, rhyming judgment task, primed lexical decision task, and a visual half-field presentation paradigm were used. Nineteen dyslexic children (mean age = 13.1 years) were compared with 26…
Descriptors: Children, Dyslexia, Comparative Analysis, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Swanson, H. Lee; Sachse-Lee, Carole – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
This study explored relationship between working memory (WM) and mathematical problem solving, comparing children with learning disabilities (LD) to chronologically age-matched and younger achievement-matched children on measures of WM, phonological processing, problem-solving, and word problem-solving accuracy. Found support for notion that…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Lehman, Elyse Brauch; And Others – 1984
A study of children's and young adults' retention of words and their presentation modality addressed three issues: (1) how long the modality information is retained, (2) whether children or adults lose it more rapidly, and (3) whether the word or modality information is lost more rapidly. The study consisted of two experiments. In the first, 32…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Comparative Analysis
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Baker-Ward, Lynne E.; Eaton, Kimberly L.; Banks, Jonathan B. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
This research examined the effects of differences in the emotions associated with an event on participants' reports of the experience. Forty-eight 10-year-old participants in a soccer tournament reported their final competition shortly after the game and 5 weeks later. Although all children reported the same event, members of winning vs. losing…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Cognitive Processes, Athletes, Emotional Response
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Howe, Mark L.; Courage, Mary L.; Vernescu, Roxana; Hunt, Melvine – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Three experiments examined kindergartners' and second graders' retention in the context of two distinctiveness manipulations, the von Restorff and bizarre imagery paradigms. Results showed that: older children retained more information from lists of pictures or interactive images over 3 weeks than younger; younger children failed to benefit from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
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Messbauer, Vera C. S.; de Jong, Peter F. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Investigated verbal and nonverbal paired associate learning among 8- to 11-year-old Dutch dyslexic children and chronological-age and reading-age controls. Found that dyslexic children had difficulty with verbal learning of words and nonwords. Phonological and general learning errors were distributed similarly for the reading groups. Found no…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Dyslexia, Error Patterns
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