title: The development of associate learning in school age children.
abstract: Associate learning is fundamental to the acquisition of knowledge and plays a critical role in the everyday functioning of the developing child, though the developmental course is still unclear. This study investigated the development of visual associate learning in 125 school age children using the Continuous Paired Associate Learning task. As hypothesized, younger children made more errors than older children across all memory loads and evidenced decreased learning efficiency as memory load increased. Results suggest that age-related differences in performance largely reflect continued development of executive function in the context of relatively developed memory processes.
authors.affiliation: CogState, Ltd., New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
authors.forename: Brian T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Harel
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Pietrzak
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Snyder
authors.affiliation: School of Behavioural Science, Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
authors.forename: Linda C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Mayes
authors.affiliation: Paul Maruff, CogState Ltd., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maruff
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning / Q000502:physiology*