Angela M AuBuchon, Emily M Elliott, Candice C Morey, Chris Jarrold, Nelson Cowan, Eryn J Adams, Meg Attwood, Büsra Bayram, Taran Y Blakstvedt, Gerhard Büttner, Thomas Castelain, Shari Cave, Davide Crepaldi, Eivor Fredriksen, Bret A Glass, Dominic Guitard, Stefanie Hoehl, Alexis Hosch, Stéphanie Jeanneret, Tanya N Joseph, Chris Koch, Jaroslaw R Lelonkiewicz, Grace Meissner, Whitney Mendenhall, David Moreau, Thomas Ostermann, Asil Ali Özdogru, Francesca Padovani, Sebastian Poloczek, Jan Philipp Röer, Christina Schonberg, Christian K Tamnes, Martin J Tomasik, Beatrice Valentini, Evie Vergauwe, Haley Vlach, Martin Voracek
A recent Registered Replication Report (RRR) of the development of verbal rehearsal during serial recall (Elliott et al., 2021) revealed that children verbalized at younger ages than previously thought (Flavell et al., 1966), but did not identify sources of individual differences. Here we use mediation analysis to reanalyze data from the 934 children ranging from 5 to 10 years old from the RRR for that purpose. From ages 5 to 7, the time taken for a child to label pictures (i.e. isolated naming speed) predicted the child's spontaneous use of labels during a visually-presented serial reconstruction task, despite no need for spoken responses...
2022: Journal of Cognition and Development: Official Journal of the Cognitive Development Society