Developmental dissociation between the maturation of procedural memory and declarative memory.
J Exp Child Psychol
; 142: 212-20, 2016 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
Declarative memory and procedural memory are known to be two fundamentally different kinds of memory that are dissociable in their psychological characteristics and measurement (explicit vs. implicit) and in the neural systems that subserve each kind of memory. Declarative memory abilities are known to improve from childhood through young adulthood, but the developmental maturation of procedural memory is largely unknown. We compared 10-year-old children and young adults on measures of declarative memory and working memory capacity and on four measures of procedural memory that have been strongly dissociated from declarative memory (mirror tracing, rotary pursuit, probabilistic classification, and artificial grammar). Children had lesser declarative memory ability and lesser working memory capacity than adults, but children exhibited learning equivalent to adults on all four measures of procedural memory. Therefore, declarative memory and procedural memory are developmentally dissociable, with procedural memory being adult-like by age 10years and declarative memory continuing to mature into young adulthood.
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Desenvolvimento Infantil
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Memória de Longo Prazo
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Aprendizagem
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Memória de Curto Prazo
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Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
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J Exp Child Psychol
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2016
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Article