The spacing effect in children's memory and category induction

Cognition

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 163-167

  Vlach, Haley A ^a   Sandhofer, Catherine M ^a   Kornell, Nate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Category induction; Child development; Children; Distributed learning; Learning; Memory; Spacing effect; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 54249167388     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.013     Document Type: Article

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