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Peer reviewedMassaro, Dominic W.; Burke, Deborah – Developmental Psychology, 1991
In three amplitude discrimination experiments involving a backward masking task, children's rate of perceptual processing was compared to that of adults. Developmental differences in discrimination were compensated for by increases in the psychophysical difference between test tones. No developmental differences in rate of perceptual processing…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception
Direct linkBijeljac-Babic, Ranka; Millogo, Victor; Farioli, Fernand; Grainger, Jonathan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Third and fifth grade children (average age 8.6 and 10.6 years) and adult participants were tested with printed words of varying length in a new on-line identification task (the luminance increment paradigm, LIP) and a speeded naming task. Effects of general length (length in letters, phonemes and syllables) were shown to decrease systematically…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 3, Phonemes, Models
Mehler, Jacques; Dupoux, Emmanuel – 1994
Noting that beyond the individual variations among humans, there is a body of mental abilities common to every human being, this book examines the debate among researchers about the extent to which humans are "preprogrammed," and suggests a new scientific psychology of human development. By examining experimental data obtained from…
Descriptors: Adults, Animal Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development
