Jenni Heikkilä|Kaisa Tiippana
School-aged children can benefit from audiovisual semantic congruency during memory encoding
University of Helsinki|University of Helsinki
although live multisensory world childrens memory usually studied concentrating one sensory modality time study investigated audiovisual encoding affects recognition memory children n 114 three age groups 8 10 12 years memorized auditory visual stimuli presented semantically congruent incongruent nonsemantic stimulus modality encoding subsequent recognition memory performance better auditory visual stimuli initially presented together semantically congruent stimulus modality stimuli accompanied nonsemantic stimulus modality congruency effect observed pictures presented sounds sounds presented pictures spoken words presented pictures written words presented spoken words present results show semantically congruent multisensory experiences encoding improve memory performance schoolaged children