title: Serial position effects for acoustic stimuli among children with and without hearing loss.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study investigated serial position effects on auditory sequential organization among children with hearing loss and with normal hearing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-eight children were divided into 4 equally sized groups: 2 groups of 6-7-year-olds and 2 groups of 9-10-year-olds. Each age group had 12 children with normal hearing and 12 children with sensorineural hearing loss. Participants were asked to reproduce auditory sequences of verbal (syllables /ba/ and /da/) and nonverbal (1-kHz pure tone and a wideband noise) elements by pressing associated buttons.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No evidence of a recency effect was found, but a primacy effect was observed in the participants' performance under most experimental conditions. Normal hearing participants in the 6-7-year-old group were better at reproducing 3 to 5 verbal items than their counterparts with hearing loss, independent of item sequence position.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results suggest that, regardless of hearing status, all children use similar mnemonic strategies.
authors.affiliation: Université de Montréal, Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. benoit.jutras@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Benoît
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jutras
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D012691:Serial Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis