The influence of talking on showing and telling: Adult-child talk and children's verbal and nonverbal event recall

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-381

  McGuigan, Fiona ^a   Salmon, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING THEORY; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RELIABILITY; STORYTELLING; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33646431715     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1183     Document Type: Article

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