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Miles, Sarah J.; Minda, John Paul – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
Current theories of category learning posit separate verbal and nonverbal learning systems. Past research suggests that the verbal system relies on verbal working memory and executive functioning and learns rule-defined categories; the nonverbal system does not rely on verbal working memory and learns non-rule-defined categories (E. M. Waldron…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Learning, Children, Short Term Memory, Investigations
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Schiff, Rachel; Bauminger, Nirit; Toledo, Idit – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
Analogical reasoning--perceiving similarities in different situations and the transfer of such information--facilitates learning and understanding. However, children with learning disabilities (LD) typically demonstrate deficits in such information processing strategies. In this study, we investigated the analogical problem-solving differences…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Verbal Learning, Nonverbal Learning, Problem Solving
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Overman, William; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Investigated the ontogenesis of oddity learning. Children and adults were tested on two versions of the oddity task using nonverbal procedures. Results suggested that children use different strategies to solve different versions of the oddity task, and in tasks in which stimuli are presented simultaneously, behavior may be controlled by stimulus…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Furth, Hans G. – 1971
Elementary school (kindergarten through sixth grade) deaf children were exposed to varied thinking activities based on J. Piaget's principle of action rooted intelligence to determine if thinking might be successfully encouraged in the classroom through activities which were not highly dependent on verbal performance. Each class of approximately…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Exceptional Child Research
Wolf, Lorraine E., Ed.; Schreiber, Hope E., Ed.; Wasserstein, Jeanette, Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008
Recent advances in neuroimaging and genetics technologies have enhanced our understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders in adults. The authors in this volume not only discuss such advances as they apply to adults with learning disorders, but also address their translation into clinical practice. One cluster of chapters addresses developmental…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, Nonverbal Learning