[Picture naming and memory in children: phonological and semantic effects].
BACKGROUND
[corrected] The relation between picture naming and the short and long term memories.


OBJECTIVE
to verify the ability of picture naming based on phonological and semantic queues, relating it to memory.


METHODS
80 pictures selected from a set of 400 (Cycowicz et al., 1997) were presented to 80 children with ages ranging from 3 to 6 years. Responses were classified in semantic and phonologic errors and number of correct answers.


RESULTS
The effect of the articulatory complexity was significant and the effect of the semantic complexity was not significant.


CONCLUSIONS
Naming is the result of memory activation which is organized in categories, physical properties and function; phonologic effects do interfere in the activity of naming, whereas the semantic effects reflect that the long term memory is organized in categories which are dependant of the context and of the development.
Scheuer
Claudia Ines
CI
Fonoaudióloga, Doutora em Lingüística, Docente do Curso de Fonoaudiologia, Departamento de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. cscheuer@usp.br
Stivanin
Luciene
L
Mangilli
Laura Davidson
LD
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011939:Mental Recall; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary