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Twenty 4-year-old Ss recalled more pictures whose labels rhymed than they did nonrhyming pictures, suggesting that Ss of that age are aware of phonetic images and use them in their recoding and storage of nonphonetic stimuli in short-term memory.
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This paper was supported by Public Health Research Grant MH-07346 from the National Institute of Mental Health. The author acknowledges the cooperation of the Children’s Research Center Preschool, supported by Grant HD 00244 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the assistance of Joyce Bookshester in running Ss.
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Locke, J.L. Phonetic mediation in four-year-old children. Psychon Sci 23, 409 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332640
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