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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Memory in children"”.
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Exploring spatial memory in children with autism and ADHD
The study investigates spatial memory in neurotypicals, ASD and ADHD children. In a reaction-time accuracy task, children (N = 117) were presented with a grid containing twenty-five individual places. In the presentation phase, children saw different categories of object-in-places which varied from …
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How does emotionality affect memory in children with autism?
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the impact of emotionality on the memory of children with an autism spectrum disorder. Although emotional events enhance memory in adults and children without an autism spectrum disorder, there are different memory patterns among individuals on …
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Overgeneral autobiographical memory in children and adolescents exposed to trauma
… Early posttraumatic stress reactions are distressing and<br/>disabling for a significant minority of children and young people. We aimed to<br/>explore the relationship between posttraumatic stress reactions, cognitive variables implicated by an adult cognitive model of PTSD (Ehlers & Clark, …
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Long -term episodic memory in children with Attention -Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder
… Disorder (ADHD) has indicated that diagnosed children show considerable memory deficits. The majority of tasks that have supported such deficits have focused on working memory and school/semantic-related abilities. Although there is a small body of literature related …
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A Comparative Study of Working Memory in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
… Previous research has provided conflicting reports with regards to the functioning of the various components of working memory in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, and in particular in those with autism. This research was initiated to answer some of the questions raised by …
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The Effects of Time of Day on Executive Function and Memory in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
<p>This study examined time of day effects on the performance of executive function and memory tasks in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and non-ADHD children. Previous studies have found that ADHD children performed worse on executive function and memory tasks. Also, …
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The development of executive functions and working memory in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A longitudinal study of brain and behaviour
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibit social and communicative problems, repetitive and restrictive patterns of behaviour, and a range of cognitive deficits, including executive functioning (EF) impairments. Literature in ASD has focused mostly on the behavioural phentotype of the …
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Event-based prospective memory in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Learning and memory seem to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure. Previous research has, however, been limited to the study of retrospective memory (i.e., episodic or declarative memory) in children with a history of prenatal alcohol exposure. Recently, …
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Phonological Working Memory Deficits in ADHD Revisited: The Role of Lower-Level Information Processing Deficits in Impaired Working Memory Performance
Working memory deficits in children with ADHD are well established; however, insufficient evidence exists concerning the degree to which lower-level cognitive processes contribute to these deficits. The current study dissociates lower level information processing abilities (i.e., visual …
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The believability of hearsay testimony involving child witnesses: effects of age and format
… witnesses required to face the defendant. Certain laws allow hearsay testimony to replace the alleged child victim's testimony. This study examines the relationship of the child's age to the relative believability of three hearsay testimony fonnats in a 2 (child witnesses: one 4-year-old and one …
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Relations between measures of attention and memory in the assessment of children with attentional difficulties
… with a number of different pediatric clinical disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities (LD), and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Further, two cognitive functions dependent upon attention, learning and memory, are characteristic deficits in …
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Concurrent Validity of the Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability-Revised with a Neurologically Compromised Pediatric Population
The Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning (WRAML) is a relatively new instrument used in the assessment of memory in children. The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the WRAML by comparing the performance of children on both the WRAML and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of …
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Toward a developmental hypothesis of clustering in free recall
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Educational Psychology, 1968
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Visual memory in Australian Aboriginal children and children of European descent : experimental report
The aim of this research was to carry out using Aboriginal children from Alice Springs a replication with variations of a study by Kearins (1974; 1977), which reported superior visual memory skills among Aboriginal children from the Western Desert; and to explore further the implications of …
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Visual memory in Australian Aboriginal children and children of European descent : experimental report
The aim of this research was to carry out using Aboriginal children from Alice Springs a replication with variations of a study by Kearins (1974; 1977), which reported superior visual memory skills among Aboriginal children from the Western Desert; and to explore further the implications of …
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Memory Performance in Children with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Neocortical vs. Dual Pathologies
This study investigated memory in children with temporal lobe epilepsy and the ability to discern hippocampal dysfunction with conventional memory tests that are typically used to detect more global memory impairment. All data was obtained retrospectively from the epilepsy surgery program at a …
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Suggestibility in children: A review: Suggestibility differences between children with and without mild intellectual impairment
Literature review: The following review outlines the broad area of children and suggestibility with a focus on children with intellectual disabilities. Key determinants of suggestibility including cognitive, social and stress factors underpinning the phenomenon are examined. Secondly, …
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The Effects of Timed Readings on Recall and Comprehension in a Child with Asperger's Syndrome.
The effects of timed readings on recall and comprehension in a child with Asperger's syndrome were examined by employing a multiple-baseline design across two books with reversals. Recall timings consisted of the student's free-say compilation of what she just read. Comprehension tests consisted of …
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