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Macken, Bill; Taylor, John C.; Jones, Dylan M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
The advantage for real words over nonwords in serial recall--the "lexicality effect"--is typically attributed to support for item-level phonology, either via redintegration, whereby partially degraded short-term traces are "cleaned up" via support from long-term representations of the phonological material or via the more…
Descriptors: Perceptual Motor Learning, Short Term Memory, Semantics, Recall (Psychology)
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Erasmus, Myrtle; Janse van Rensburg, Ona; Pienaar, Anita E.; Ellis, Suria – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
South Africa consists of developed and developing contexts. This article reports on a study undertaken to determine the effect of a Perceptual--motor Intervention Programme in learning readiness of Grade R learners from deprived environments. Le Roux's Group Test for School Readiness was used as baseline assessments to establish the school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Perceptual Motor Learning, Learning Readiness, Intervention
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Maidment, David W.; Macken, William J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Classical cognitive accounts of verbal short-term memory (STM) invoke an abstract, phonological level of representation which, although it may be derived differently via different modalities, is itself amodal. Key evidence for this view is that serial recall of phonologically similar verbal items (e.g., the letter sounds "b",…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Acoustics, Memory