Children's perceptual organization of seriated displays: Evidence against a memory reorganization hypothesis

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The memory for a seriated display and its reorganization over an 8-mo. interval was examined in educable mentally retarded [EMR] children. In groups of children who viewed a random display and an array of disordered sticks, the reorganization into a more seriated drawing after the passage of time was not directly based on the original stimulus. Various controls including copying of the original material, matching and recognition conditions gave evidence that the child''s cognitive level affected encoding of the material and its later output. The observed phenomenon of memory improvement may have little to do with stored images and may be linked to the developmental symbolic level of the child which influences original perception and memory. EMR children apparently performed like normal children of the same mental age on the seriation task.

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