Listen up, kids! How mind wandering affects immediate and delayed memory in children.
Mind wandering occurs when attention becomes disengaged from the here-and-now and directed toward internally generated thoughts; this is often associated with poorer performance on educationally significant tasks. In this study, 8- to 9-year-old children (N = 60) listened to audio stories embedded w...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 909 - 926 |
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Springer Nature
May2024
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