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Sauter, Megan; Uttal, David H.; Alman, Amanda Schaal; Goldin-Meadow, Susan; Levine, Susan C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
This article examines two issues: the role of gesture in the communication of spatial information and the relation between communication and mental representation. Children (8-10 years) and adults walked through a space to learn the locations of six hidden toy animals and then explained the space to another person. In Study 1, older children and…
Descriptors: Animals, Nonverbal Communication, Spatial Ability, Children
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Nagasawa, Yoshinori; Demura, Shinichi – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2011
This study examined age-group corresponding relationships of the controlled force exertion based on sinusoidal and quasi-random waveforms in 175 right-handed male adults aged 20 to 86 years. The subjects were divided into 3 groups based on age-level: 53 young (mean age 24.6, SD = 3.3 years), 71 middle aged (mean age 44.3, SD = 8.7 years), and 51…
Descriptors: Age, Computer Uses in Education, Older Adults, Age Differences
Pitkanen, Ilona – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The research presented in this dissertation examined changes in brain activity associated with learning, forgetting and using a second language. The first experiment investigated the changes that occur when novice adult second language learners acquire and forget second language words. Event-related brain potentials were measured while native…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Correlation, Vowels, Grammar