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The development of the picture‐superiority effect
Author(s) -
Whitehouse Andrew J. O.,
Maybery Murray T.,
Durkin Kevin
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1348/026151005x74153
Subject(s) - psychology , recall , task (project management) , encoding (memory) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , population , child development , demography , management , sociology , economics
When pictures and words are presented serially in an explicit memory task, recall of the pictures is superior. While this effect is well established in the adult population, little is known of the development of this picture‐superiority effect in typical development. This task was administered to 80 participants from middle childhood to adolescence. The magnitude of the picture superiority effect increased with age. This finding is interpreted as supporting the position that pictorial superiority is contingent upon the encoding of pictorial information through two different routes.