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OPINION article Front. Psychol., 07 January 2015Sec. Developmental Psychology Volume 5 - 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01538

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  • Applying how adults rehearse to understand how rehearsal may developEdited by: Christopher Jarrold, University of Bristol, UK Reviewed by: Alessandra S

  • We address short-term memory development and the role of covert verbal rehearsal (CVR), the imagined pronunciation of items from a list to be recalled

  • Though, is that it is theoretically possible for CVR to occur with words overlapping in time, which is impossible for overt rehearsal

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Applying how adults rehearse to understand how rehearsal may develop

Edited by: Christopher Jarrold, University of Bristol, UK Reviewed by: Alessandra S. That pattern could not result from rehearsal always starting at the beginning of the list Instead, it suggests that sometimes there is rehearsal of recent subsequences of a few items. It suggests that sometimes there is rehearsal of recent subsequences of a few items This finding of non-initial subsequence rehearsal, not emphasized by Bhatarah et al (2009), potentially has implications regarding the purpose of CVR. The participant might rehearse a list-medial sequence while thinking about where that sequence is to go in the list, perhaps starting where the previous rehearsal cycle left off Another possible purpose of rehearsal is to support grouping, the beginning of the formation of a new chunk in memory (cf., Anderson and Matessa, 1997; Cowan, 2001; Farrell, 2012). To make children less self-conscious during the retention interval, they wore a space helmet with a translucent visor that came www.frontiersin.org

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