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Development of Procedural Learning in Children : The “Toy Task”
Lejeune, Caroline; Meulemans, Thierry
2008Belgian Association for Psychological Science
 

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Keywords :
procedural; child; memory
Abstract :
[en] The authors generally agree that procedural learning abilities play an important role in the child development and that they are present early in childhood. However, few studies have been carried out in this area because of the difficulty to develop tests specifically designed for the evaluation of these capacities in young children. In this study, we presented a new task aimed to evaluate visuo-motor skill learning in the young child. The purpose of the present study was to explore whether procedural learning abilities are present in the same extent in 4-year as 7- and 10-year-old children. Our sample is composed of 60 children divided into 3 age-groups. The task is composed of 5 blocks of 12 trials during which each subject has to use a reversed mouse of a computer in order to “catch” different toys appearing on the screen; 2 blocks of 12 trials was administered after a 15 minutes delay. Our results show an important difference between the groups for the first block; on the other hand, for the next blocks, the results show an absence of age-related difference between participants in our perceptive-motor skill learning task, confirming the idea according to which procedural learning abilities are efficient early in development (the difference observed during the first block being probably due to the intervention of executive mechanisms).
Research center :
Unité de Neuropscychologie
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Lejeune, Caroline ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Neuropsychologie
Meulemans, Thierry ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Fac. de psycho. et des sc. de l'éducat.) > Doyen de la Faculté de Psychologie et des sc. de l'éducation
Language :
English
Title :
Development of Procedural Learning in Children : The “Toy Task”
Publication date :
2008
Event name :
Belgian Association for Psychological Science
Event organizer :
University of Leuven
Event place :
Leuven, Belgium
Event date :
26 mai 2008
Audience :
International
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