Cognitive correlates of memory integration across development: Explaining variability in an educationally relevant phenomenon.

ABSTRACT: The current research was an investigation of the cognitive correlates of individual differences in participants' capacity to derive new factual knowledge through integration of information acquired across separate yet related learning episodes. In a sample of 117 adults (Experiment 1) and 57 children aged 8 to 10 years (Experiment 2), we investigated the respective roles of verbal comprehension, working memory span, and relational reasoning in self-derivation of new knowledge through memory integration. The findings revealed patterns of consistency and inconsistency in the cognitive profiles underlying this form of learning in adults and children. In both adults and children, verbal knowledge and skills accounted for variability in self-derivation. Variance in adults, but not in children,

SUBMITTER: Varga NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6461377 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature