Serial and free recall in children can be improved by training: Evidence for the importance of phonological and semantic representations in immediate memory tasks

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1694-1700

  Melby Lervåg, Monica ^a   Hulme, Charles ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

free recall; language processing; memory; serial recall

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78649565710     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610385355     Document Type: Article

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