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Berteletti, Ilaria; Lucangeli, Daniela; Zorzi, Marco – Cognition, 2012
The representation of numerical and non-numerical ordered sequences was investigated in children from preschool to grade 3. The child's conception of how sequence items map onto a spatial scale was tested using the Number-to-Position task (Siegler & Opfer, 2003) and new variants of the task designed to probe the representation of the alphabet…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Investigations, Preschool Education, Task Analysis
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Kesner, Raymond P.; Goodrich-Hunsaker, Naomi J. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
This review summarizes a series of experiments aimed at answering the question whether the hippocampus in rats can serve as an animal model of amnesia. It is recognized that a comparison of the functions of the rat hippocampus with human hippocampus is difficult, because of differences in methodology, differences in complexity of life experiences,…
Descriptors: Animals, Sequential Learning, Memory, Models
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Karatekin, Canan; Marcus, David J.; White, Tonya – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
The goal of this study was to examine incidental and intentional spatial sequence learning during middle childhood and adolescence. We tested four age groups (8-10 years, 11-13 years, 14-17 years, and young adults [18+ years]) on a serial reaction time task and used manual and oculomotor measures to examine incidental sequence learning.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Intentional Learning, Incidental Learning, Children
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Craig, Helen B.; Gordon, Harold W. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1988
Hearing-impaired adolescents (n=62) were evaluated on tests of specialized cognitive functioning. Variables noted were reading and mathematics achievement, speech production, etiology, and age at impairment onset. Performance was below average for verbal/sequential skills of the left cerebral hemisphere and average or above for the visuospatial…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Etiology