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AUTHOR
Raphaëlle Bertrand
Déclin temporel de l'information en mémoire chez l'enfant de 4 à 6 ans
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Motor activity could help young children to counteract forgetting in short-term memory
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Maintien de l'information en mémoire de travail chez l'enfant de 4 à 6 ans : impact d'une activité motrice orientée vers un but
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The role of attention in preschoolers’ working memory
Abstract Recent studies showed that introducing an unfilled delay or a secondary task between encoding and recall reduces recall performance in preschoolers, whereas increasing the attentional demand of this secondary task does not. Based on these results, different authors drew opposing conclusions regarding the use of attention in preschoolers’ memory maintenance. This study aimed to bring further evidence to bear on the issue. In two experiments, recall was reduced when an unfilled delay was introduced before recall, but also when the demand of the concurrent task increased. These effects did not interact with age, although performance improved from 4 to 6 years of age. A third experimen…
Elaboration d'un paradigme d'évaluation de la mémoire de travail chez l'enfant d'école maternelle
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Maintaining information in Short-Term Memory between 2 and 6 years old of age : temporal forgetting and helping in maintaining the goal
Working memory is an essential component of thought that is highly involved in learning and academic achievement. However, it is rarely studied in preschoolers, mainly because of a lack of suitable paradigms. Therefore, this thesis investigated the functioning of working memory in children between 2 and 6 years. For this purpose, two original paradigms were used. They were designed to be close to game situations which should help young children to focus their attention on the task. Firstly it was shown that the recall performance decreased over time, even in the absence of an interfering task. Children of this age therefore use a passive maintenance, i.e. without spontaneously implementing …
Young children's decay of memory traces in short-term memory
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