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Procedural and declarative memory: a developmental study. 1994

D V DiGiulio, and M Seidenberg, and D S O'Leary, and N Raz

Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Measures of procedural and declarative memory were administered to 88 children forming two groups, aged 8 and 12. Two measures of priming, Gollin Figures and Degraded Words, were compared to declarative measures of recall. Strong support for a developmental dissociation between priming tasks and declarative memory was found. Both age groups showed a similar amount of priming facilitation, yet a significant age effect was observed for the declarative recall tasks. Current findings demonstrate that the level of procedural memory performance stabilizes during a period of development when declarative memory continues to improve.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D010364	Pattern Recognition, Visual	Mental process to visually perceive a critical number of facts (the pattern), such as characters, shapes, displays, or designs.	Recognition, Visual Pattern,Visual Pattern Recognition
D010466	Perceptual Closure	The tendency to perceive an incomplete pattern or object as complete or whole. This includes the Gestalt Law of Closure.	Gestalt Law of Closure,Perceptual Completion Phenomena,Closure, Perceptual,Closures, Perceptual,Completion Phenomena, Perceptual,Perceptual Closures,Phenomena, Perceptual Completion
D011340	Problem Solving	A learning situation involving more than one alternative from which a selection is made in order to attain a specific goal.
D011939	Mental Recall	The process whereby a representation of past experience is elicited.	Recall, Mental
D012153	Retention, Psychology	The persistence to perform a learned behavior (facts or experiences) after an interval has elapsed in which there has been no performance or practice of the behavior.	Psychological Retention,Retention (Psychology),Psychology Retention,Retention, Psychological
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002657	Child Development	The continuous sequential physiological and psychological maturing of an individual from birth up to but not including ADOLESCENCE.	Infant Development,Development, Child,Development, Infant
D004193	Discrimination Learning	Learning that is manifested in the ability to respond differentially to various stimuli.	Discriminative Learning,Discrimination Learnings,Discriminative Learnings,Learning, Discrimination,Learning, Discriminative
D005260	Female		Females