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Procedural and declarative memory: a developmental study.

D V DiGiulio·M Seidenberg·D S O'Leary·N Raz
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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.

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D V DiGiulio, M Seidenberg, D S O'Leary, N Raz. 1994. Procedural and declarative memory: a developmental study.. https://doi.org/10.1006/brcg.1994.1024

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