Gaze-Based Rehearsal in Children under 7: A Developmental Investigation of Eye Movements during a Serial Spatial Memory Task

Autor/inn/en	Morey, Candice C.; Mareva, Silvana; Lelonkiewicz, Jaroslaw R.; Chevalier, Nicolas
Titel	Gaze-Based Rehearsal in Children under 7: A Developmental Investigation of Eye Movements during a Serial Spatial Memory Task
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 21 (2018) 3, (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Morey, Candice C.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.12559
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Mnemonics; Child Development; Qualitative Research; Learning Strategies; Serial Learning; Spatial Ability; Short Term Memory; Age Differences; Adults; Children; Retention (Psychology); Cues; Task Analysis; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Mnemotechnik; Kindesentwicklung; Qualitative Forschung; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Serielles Lernen; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Child; Kind; Kinder; Merkfähigkeit; Stichwort; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	The emergence of strategic verbal rehearsal at around 7 years of age is widely considered a major milestone in descriptions of the development of short-term memory across childhood. Likewise, rehearsal is believed by many to be a crucial factor in explaining why memory improves with age. This apparent qualitative shift in mnemonic processes has also been characterized as a shift from passive visual to more active verbal mnemonic strategy use, but no investigation of the development of overt spatial rehearsal has informed this explanation. We measured serial spatial order reconstruction in adults and groups of children 5-7 years old and 8-11 years old, while recording their eye movements. Children, particularly the youngest children, overtly fixated late-list spatial positions longer than adults, suggesting that younger children are less likely to engage in covert rehearsal during stimulus presentation than older children and adults. However, during retention the youngest children overtly fixated more of the to-be-remembered sequences than any other group, which is inconsistent with the idea that children do nothing to try to remember. Altogether, these data are inconsistent with the notion that children under 7 do not engage in any attempts to remember. They are most consistent with proposals that children's style of remembering shifts around age 7 from reactive cue-driven methods to proactive, covert methods, which may include cumulative rehearsal. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01