Encoding Processes and Release from Proactive Interference in Short-Term Memory of Preschool Children

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the release from proactive interference (RPI) task, where college students (n = 40) received 4 trials comprised of 3-word triads of either positive (P) or negative (N) words.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors look back at the adult PI literature, spanning over sixty years, as well as recent results linking the ability to cope with PI to working memory capacity in early development, yet an accounting for the role of PI has been lacking.

TL;DR: Age-related change in proactive interference, which refers to impaired recall due to interference from material presented previously, decreased between 4 and 13 years of age, and structural equation modeling revealed that age-relatedchange in interference was linked to age- related change in speed of information processing.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors look back at the adult PI literature, spanning over 60 years, as well as recent results linking the ability to cope with proactive interference to working memory capacity.

TL;DR: This article investigated the effect of proactive inhibition in short-term retention as a function of degree of similarity between the proactive items and the critical test items and found no evidence that formal similarity (same units in proactive items as in test items) produced greater interference than that obtained from proactive items lacking this formal similarity.

TL;DR: In this article, two groups of children, a 4 and a 5-year old, were run in a short-termmemory experiment specifically designed to sustain the attention of a young child.

TL;DR: In this paper, two series of object drawings classifiable according to either color or conceptual categories were used: one to assess dimensional saliency and the other to assess free recall, clustering, and cued recall.