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Swanson, Lee – 1976
Evaluated with two age groups (mean age 8.1 years or 10.6 years) totaling 22 learning disabled children was whether there is an age related increase in recognition for visual nonverbal short term memory (STM) and the effects on STM of stimulus dimensionality, primacy, recency, and second choice responses. A serial recognition task was used to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Riege, Walter H.; Williams, M. Virtrue – 1980
The impact of age effects on nonverbal memory for auditory or tactual patterns has been largely neglected in research studies. The effects of age on nonverbal memory were investigated by comparing subjects (N=120), divided by age decades into six groups (N=20), through tests using visual, auditory, and tactual items which were resistant to verbal…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Learning Modalities