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The Interplay between Multisensory Associative Learning and IQ in Children
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Barutchu, Ayla; Fifer, Joanne M.; Shivdasani, Mohit N.; Crewther, Sheila G.; Paolini, Antonio G. – Child Development, 2020
This study assessed the developmental profile of unisensory and multisensory processes, and their contribution to children's intellectual abilities (8- and 11-year olds, N = 38, compared to adults, N = 19) using a simple audiovisual detection task and three incidental associative learning tasks with different sensory signals: visual-verbal with…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Associative Learning, Intelligence Quotient, Cognitive Ability
Attention to Novel Objects during Verb Learning.
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Kersten, Alan W.; Smith, Linda B. – Child Development, 2002
Three experiments investigated whether preschoolers attend to actions or object when learning a novel verb. Findings showed that children learning nouns in the context of novel, moving objects attended exclusively to appearances of objects. Children learning verbs attended equally to appearances and motions. With familiar objects, children…
Descriptors: Attention, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
Adult and Child Discrimination of CV Syllables Differing in Voicing Onset Time.
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Elliott, Lois L.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines whether age-related differences would be observed between young children and adults for discrimination of synthesized, five-format consonant-vowel syllables that differed in voicing onset time of the initial consonants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli
Genetic Aspects of Verbal Mediation in Memory.
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Alegria, Jesus; Pignot, Elisabeth – Child Development, 1979
Experiment 1 showed that four-year-old children memorized a list of non-rhyming items better than a list of rhyming ones. In Experiment 2, bilingual children learned a list of items which had rhyming names in one language and non-rhyming names in the other. Results showed better performance on the non-rhyming items. (JMB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Mediation Theory