Knowing in advance: the impact of prior event information on memory and event knowledge

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This article examines how offering children prior knowledge of an event effects children's memory of the actual event. The authors, offering participants specific information of an upcoming event, maintain children were better able to relate the experience when information was provided beforehand, concluding that providing information in advance can significantly effect memory and knowledge acquisition.

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Speech timing and working memory in profoundly deaf children after cochlear implantation

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This article examines speaking rates, digit span, and speech timing of deaf children with cochlear implants. The authors, comparing a deaf 8 and 9 year olds with normal hearing children, maintain deaf children had longer sentence durations and pauses and shorter digit spans than normal hearing children.

Speech, Children, Deaf, Deaf children, Cochlear implants

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Capacity, strategies, and metamemory: tests of a three-factor model of memory development

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This article examines memory development in children. The authors, testing three factors (capacity, strategies, and metamemory) suggested to cause improvements in memory with age, conclude factors differ with age and the metamemory factor was inconclusive with younger children.

Models

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