Hebb repetition learning in adolescents with intellectual disabilities
- Background: Hebb repetition learning is a form of long-term serial order learning that can occur when sequences of items in an immediate serial recall task are repeated. Repetition improves performance because of the gradual integration of serial order information from short-term memory into a more stable long-term memory trace. Aims: The current study assessed whether adolescents with non-specific intellectual disabilities showed Hebb repetition effects, and if their magnitude was equivalent to those of children with typical development, matched for mental age. Methods: Two immediate serial recall Hebb repetition learning tasks using verbal and visuospatial materials were presented to 47 adolescents with intellectual disabilities (11–15 years) and 47 individually mental age-matched children with typical development (4–10 years). Results: Both groups showed Hebb repetition learning effects of similar magnitude, albeit with some reservations. Evidence for Hebb repetition learning was found for both verbal and visuospatial materials; for our measure of Hebb learning the effects were larger for verbal than visuospatial materials. Conclusions: The findings suggested that adolescents with intellectual disabilities may show implicit long-term serial-order learning broadly commensurate with mental age level. The benefits of using repetition in educational contexts for adolescents with intellectual disabilities are considered.
Author: | Lucy A. HenryORCiD, Sebastian PoloczekORCiDGND, David J. MesserORCiDGND, Rachel Dennan, Elisa MattiaudaORCiD, Henrik DanielssonORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-631148 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2022.104219 |
ISSN: | 1873-3379 |
Parent Title (English): | Research in developmental disabilities |
Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam [u.a.] |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/03/19 |
Date of first Publication: | 2022/03/19 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2023/02/14 |
Tag: | Adolescents; Hebb repetition learning; Intellectual disability; Mental-age matching |
Volume: | 125 |
Issue: | art. 104219 |
Article Number: | 104219 |
Page Number: | 12 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 12 |
Note: | This research was supported by The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund, grant reference number 4768–7692. |
Note: | On publication, the original data and analysis files will be uploaded to the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/gkpwh/. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 507186303 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |