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Contextual support for children’s recall within working memory

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Contextual support for children’s recall within working memory. / Roome, Hannah; Towse, John Nicholas; Crespo Llado, Maria.
In: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , Vol. 72, No. 6, 01.06.2019, p. 1364-1378.

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Roome, H, Towse, JN & Crespo Llado, M 2019, 'Contextual support for children’s recall within working memory', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 1364-1378. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818804440

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Roome H, Towse JN, Crespo Llado M. Contextual support for children’s recall within working memory. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology . 2019 Jun 1;72(6):1364-1378. Epub 2018 Sept 21. doi: 10.1177/1747021818804440

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Roome, Hannah ; Towse, John Nicholas ; Crespo Llado, Maria. / Contextual support for children’s recall within working memory. In: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology . 2019 ; Vol. 72, No. 6. pp. 1364-1378.

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abstract = "Measures of working memory capacity (WMC) are extremely popular, yet we know relatively little about the specific processes that support recall. We focused on children and adults{\textquoteright} ability to use contextual support to access working memory representations that might otherwise not be reported. Children (N=186, five- to 10-years old) and adults{\textquoteright} (N=64) completed a listening span task and a delayed recall task with semantic probes or cues. Clear age-related increases in listening span were evident. All age groups benefited from contextual support to retrieve degraded target memoranda, particularly on listening span tasks when the cues provided semantic support for processing events, in comparison to cues associated specifically with memoranda. Response latencies suggested a developing efficiency in children{\textquoteright}s use of contextual support for delayed recall correlated with listening span performance. These probe tasks support accounts of working memory that recognise reconstructive and cued search processes.",
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