Memory storage and retrieval within and across modalities in children

Autor: Dorothy S. Konick, Kenneth L. Hoving, James R. Wallace
Rok vydání: 1975
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Zdroj: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 19:440-447
ISSN: 0022-0965
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0965(75)90073-9
Popis: Twenty-four kindergarten and fourth grade children were asked to locate a display card which had been visually or verbally presented. A probe, which identified the card to be located, was presented verbally and visually equally often. The children's ability to recall the location of an item did not differ as a function of the modality to which the material was presented. Nor was recall significantly affected when the presentation modality differed from the probe modality, suggesting that children as young as 5 can cross these sensory modalities to retrieve material with no loss in accuracy. Serial position curves suggest that the verbal and visual material is not stored in a common intersensory store. The primacy effect is found to be stronger with visually presented material and the recency effect strongest with auditorily presented material. Probe modality did not influence the serial position curves.
Databáze: OpenAIRE