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Barton, Brian; Ester, Edward F.; Awh, Edward – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Are resources in visual working memory allocated in a continuous or a discrete fashion? On one hand, flexible resource models suggest that capacity is determined by a central resource pool that can be flexibly divided such that items of greater complexity receive a larger share of resources. On the other hand, if capacity in working memory is…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Experiments, Mnemonics, Memorization
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Reck, Sarah G.; Hund, Alycia M.; Landau, Steven – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2010
Objective: To determine whether 7- to 12-year-old boys with ADHD, relative to non-ADHD age-mates, exhibit greater difficulty learning and remembering object locations. The second purpose was to examine the functional utility of mnemonic strategies, specifically speech-to-self, used by boys with and without ADHD. Method: Boys with and without ADHD…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Memorization, Mnemonics, Males
Miyakawa, Hiroko; Restaino, Lillian C. R. – 1976
Two experiments evaluated the effects of mnemonic training upon 5- and 10-year-old children's learning and retention of patterns at varying intervals. Subjects were 172 middle class children evenly distributed across the two age groups. Experiment I investigated the effects of individual strategies (perceptual exploration, organization of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Learning