title: Procedural and declarative memory: a developmental study.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: DiGiulio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seidenberg
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: O'Leary
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Raz
mesh_terms: D001245:Association Learning; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010466:Perceptual Closure; D011340:Problem Solving; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D014888:Wechsler Scales