Speech, “inner speech,” and the development of short-term memory: Effects of picture-labeling on recall

Hitch, Graham J.; Halliday, M.S.; Schaafstal, Alma; Heffernan, Tom

doi:10.1016/0022-0965(91)90033-o

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“…In the case of words of different length, differences in recall were closely related to the rate at which they could be spoken. Other researchers have reported similar results (e.g., Hitch, Halliday, Dodd, & Littler, 1989a;Hitch, Halliday, & Littler, 1989b;Hitch, Halliday, Schaafstal, & Heffernan, 1991).…”

Section: Study 1: Memory Span and Pronunciation Speedsupporting

confidence: 72%

Memory development in Libyan and Dutch school children

Shebani

Vijver

Poortinga

2008

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

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Section: Study 1: Memory Span and Pronunciation Speedsupporting

confidence: 72%

Memory development in Libyan and Dutch school children

Shebani

Vijver

Poortinga

2008

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

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“…Children were instructed not to name items out loud during presentation of pictures in order to avoid adding overt verbal input (Hitch et al, 1991). If they were observed to do so, they were reminded again.…”

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“…For example, strategic approaches may differ when span capacity is overloaded: McGilly and Siegler (1989) found more evidence for rehearsal when shorter lists were presented to young children. Two further methodological issues are as follows: Hitch et al (1991) noted that evidence for 'similarity' effects is enhanced by blocking lists of each type together (i.e. not alternating similar and dissimilar picture types across trials), to increase proactive interference.…”

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Phonological, visual, and semantic coding strategies and children's short-term picture memory span

Henry

Messer

Luger-Klein

et al. 2012

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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. Phonological, visual and semantic coding strategies in short-term picture memory span: How do they develop?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(10), pp. 2033Psychology, 65(10), pp. -2053Psychology, 65(10), pp. . doi: 10.1080Psychology, 65(10), pp. /17470218.2012 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent

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“…This shift has been related variously to children's adoption of a conscious strategy for memorizing visually presented material (Flavell, Beach, & Chinsky, 1966), to the gradual decoupling of the phonological short-term memory system from the stimulus of overt speech (Hitch, Halliday, Schaafstal, & Heffernan, 1991), and to changes in central executive functioning (Palmer, 2000a Lloyd & Fernyhough, 1999), and the influence of sociocultural variables on this process has yet to be determined.…”

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Sociocultural influences on the development of verbal mediation: Private speech and phonological recoding in Saudi Arabian and British samples.

Al-Namlah¹,

Fernyhough²,

Meins³

2006

Developmental Psychology

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. In press, Developmental Psychology Verbal Mediation 2 AbstractCross-national stability in private speech (PS) and short-term memory was investigated in Saudi Arabian (N = 63) and British (N = 58) 4-to 8-year-olds. Assumed differences in child-adult interaction between the 2 nationality groups led to predictions of gender-bynationality interactions in the development of verbal mediation. British boys used more self-regulatory PS than British girls, while there was no such difference for the Saudi group. Controlling for age, verbal ability, and social speech, boys used marginally more self-regulatory PS than girls. Self-regulatory PS was related to children's use of phonological recoding of visually presented material in a short-term memory task,suggesting that PS and phonological recoding represent different facets of a domaingeneral transition toward verbal mediation in early childhood. The question of how language and thought become developmentally intertwined in early childhood has long been of interest to psychologists. Vygotsky (1934Vygotsky ( /1987 proposed that a revolution in cognitive development occurs when children begin to use semiotic systems, primarily natural language, to augment and transform their prelinguistic cognitive capacities. On this account, the phenomenon of private speech (PS)-speech that is not obviously addressed to any interlocutor-represents the process through which language that initially serves a social communicative purpose comes to fulfil a self-regulatory function. Since Berk's (1992) landmark review, which concluded that the evidence largely supports Vygotsky's interpretation of the phenomenon, there has been renewed interest in the self-regulatory functions of PS (Winsler, 2004).Nevertheless, some of the central claims of Vygotsky's theory, such as that PS originates in social interaction and should therefore be influenced by sociocultural variables, have received relatively little attention.In parallel with this growth of interest in the verbal mediation of behavior and cognitive performance, researchers have continued to investigate the development of linguistic mediation in another domain, that of short-term memory. Within the influential model of working memory presented by Baddeley and Hitch (1974;Baddeley, 1986), verbal mediation of memory performance is made possible by the rehearsal of phonological information in the articulatory loop component of the working memorysystem. An important shift in children's strategies for remembering...

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Speech, “inner speech,” and the development of short-term memory: Effects of picture-labeling on recall

Cited by 82 publications

References 18 publications

Memory development in Libyan and Dutch school children

Memory development in Libyan and Dutch school children

Phonological, visual, and semantic coding strategies and children's short-term picture memory span

Sociocultural influences on the development of verbal mediation: Private speech and phonological recoding in Saudi Arabian and British samples.

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