The mediational abilities of 40 preschool, 40 first grade, and 40 elderly subjects were assessed using the Kindler's three stage transfer paradigm, with both familiar and novel stimuli serving as potential mediators. (MS)

Investigated older (N=98) and younger (N=116) persons' responsibility attributions for the cause and solution to a memory problem. Results indicate that both the age of the help-seeker and the problem type affected attributions. An older adult was perceived as less responsible than a younger adult for a memory problem. (RJM)

Tested hypothesis from Bahrick and Pickens' infant attention model that retrieval cues increase memory accessibility and shift visual preferences toward greater novelty to resemble recent memories. Found that after retention intervals associated with remote or intermediate memory, previous familiarity preferences shifted to null or novelty…

Asserts that this book, drawn from a 1993 conference on memory development, accurately reflects the contemporary status of the field in two ways: (1) its research is matured and specialized; and (2) there are no major theoretical disputes, nor a widely shared new approach, although using microgenetic designs to study cognitive strategy choice…

Investigated whether limitations in the enhancement of learning-disabled readers' working memory (WM) performance are attributable to process or storage functions. Found that: intercorrelations among diverse WP measures increased on demanding conditions; and verbal WM was not directly related to reading skill, supporting the notion that poor…

Examined how infants' memories of the context in which an event occurred are distorted through exposure to the event in a different context after one or six days. Found that when event components are encountered later in new context, the new context may be remembered as being where the event had occurred, and the original context forgotten. (KDFB)

Evidence is offered that children with specific language impairment often have serial memory difficulties. Research on the difficulties such children have in rote counting and in learning nursery rhymes is reviewed. Implications of current research for assessment and intervention in mathematics and rhymes are discussed. (DB)

Examines the key role that memory plays in the meaning-making process that children enact as they read and view images in a classroom that respects and encourages their own views and reflections. Discusses the six major categories of children's visual responses, and presents representative examples of children's illustrations. (TB)

Archaeology and cultural anthropology show that humans developed many discrete skills (social, technological, natural history, and language intelligence) over the past million years, but only recently have combined these into "broad" intelligence. Understanding learning is a key issue. Metacognition, the ability to consider one's…

Tests three groups of dyslexic children (mean ages 8, 13, 17 years) and three groups of normal achievers (matched for age/IQ) for sound categorization and phoneme deletion, which allows comparison across chronological age and reading age. Finds that children with dyslexia performed significantly worse than their reading age controls on both tasks.…

Reports on views of storytellers on children's work with stories. Offers ideas to teachers on effective ways to tap into the oral tradition of storytelling. (TB)

Used pictorial stimuli to test for revelation effect with 4- and 8-year-olds and adults. Found reliable revelation effect at all ages, indicating the complex fluency-of-processing discrepancy detection and attribution mechanisms thought to be responsible for the effect function similarly from 4 years through adulthood. Found recognition decisions…

This retrospective study examined play memories from childhood to adulthood of 478 university students between ages 20 and 62 as exhibited in drawings of play memories and questionnaire responses. The study focused on the role of the physical environment and place identity in play memories and individual identity development. Findings showed that…

Links between theory of mind and episodic memory involving autonoetic consciousness were investigated in Japanese 4- to 6-year-olds. After age was controlled for, most theory of mind abilities showed no interrelations. Own and others' belief understandings on deceptive appearance tasks were solely related to source memory. Results suggest that…

This study compared 3- and 5-year-olds' reports of a true or false play interaction following repeated interviews. Findings indicated age-related improvements in performance. Three-year-olds questioned repeatedly about a false event made more errors in response to specific questions than their age-mates questioned about false details of a true…