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Do preschoolers remember what they hear when accompanying pictures do not completely overlap sentence content? In two experiments children learned more when the subjects and objects were depicted, but learning was not enhanced by the provision of only the subject or object. Whether explicitly mismatched pictures detracted from learning depended on the nature of the mismatch.
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Pressley, M., Pigott, S. & Bryant, S.L. Picture content and preschoolers’ learning from sentences. ECTJ 30, 151–161 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02766595
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