Do young children rehearse? An individual-differences analysis
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The issue of whether young children rehearse in auditory memory tasks was investigated across a series of three studies comparing individual differences in articulation rates and memory spans. Applying the principles of the working-memory model, children with faster rates of speaking should have superior memory spans if they engage in rehearsal. Two of the experiments, with 4-year-old children, failed to establish any significant association between articulation rate and memory span, although both the memory span and articulation rate procedures were found to be highly reliable in this age group. A third experiment confirmed that, as expected, articulation rates and memory spans were significantly associated with one another in adult subjects. The results indicate that, contrary to recent theories of children's short-term-memory development, 4-year-old children do not engage in subvocal rehearsal during auditory memory span tasks.
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“For instance, while vocabulary size depends heavily on encountering the words in question, digit span depends heavily on explicit strategies that must be learned (Gathercole, Adams, & Hitch, 1994).”
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- Authors
- Gathercole, S. E., Adams, A.-M., & Hitch, G. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- Venue
- Memory & Cognition
- Published
- 1994-03
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 201-207
- ISSN
- 0090-502X (ISSN-L)
- 1532-5946
- OpenAlex
- W2010310192
- Cited by
- 144
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 6.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Memory & Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (publishedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Keywords
- rehearsal, subvocal rehearsal, auditory memory, memory span, articulation rate, individual differences, working memory models, young children, 4-year-old children, speech rate
- MeSH terms
- Auditory Perception, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Humans, Individuality, Intelligence Tests, Memory, Short-Term, Practice, Psychological, Speech
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