The performance of 10 pairs of first-grade children classified as verbal rehearsers or verbal nonrehearsers was examined on a visual recognition task. The mean score of spontaneous verbal rehearsers was consistently superior to that of nonrehearsers. Item analysis showed that nonrehearsers tended to code visually rather than conceptually on trials which were in error.
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