Dichotic listening in children: the reflection of verbal and attentional changes with age

Article Abstract:

A comparison is made between the performance of 290 Hebrew-speaking kindergarten children in high and low verbal workload dichotic tests taken at the beginning of their first year at school and their performance in the same tests taken at the end of the school year. The findings show a significant decrease in the performance difference between ears and a considerable increase in the children's overall performance in the second low verbal workload test. They suggest that free recall of dichotically presented stimuli is influenced by the allocation of verbal and spatial resources to input channels.

Usage, Listening, Auditory perception in children, Childhood auditory perception, Dichotic listening tests

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Attachment and emotion in autobiographical memory development

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Researchers assessed the emotional content of conversations concerning memories in 46 mother-child pairs where the children were aged 3.5-4.5 years. They found that attachment had an influence mainly in the mother-daughter dyads. Conversations involving insecurely attached daughters included more negative memory talk than those involving securely attached daughters, but there was more elaboration on both negative and positive themes in conversations involving securely-attached girls. Elaboration in mother-daughter dyads with insecure girls mainly concerned positive themes.

Mother and child, Mother-child relations, Attachment behavior, Attachment (Psychology), Autobiographical memory

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Verbal and facial measures of children's emotion and empathy

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Assessment of the facial reactions of 60 ten-year-old girls to six stimulus vignettes revealed partial correlations between reported emotions and their facial display of such emotions and similar correlations between their verbal and facial empathy scores. Girls of this age are more likely to facially display positive than negative emotions.

Analysis, Evaluation, Facial expression

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