Understanding the Strategies Children Use to Remember and Learn

Researchers at Boys Town National Research Hospital are trying to understand how language and attention support the development of memory, particularly the strategies that children use to remember.

Who can participate?

Eligible participants:

• Children ages 6 to 7 years old
• Have typical hearing
• Have with normal or corrected-to-normal vision
• Exposed to American English since birth

Children with intellectual, developmental, or neurological diagnoses (e.g., autism, epilepsy, Down Syndrome) do not qualify.

What will participants do?

Participants will complete one in-person visit lasting around 1 to 1.5 hours.

Children will be given sequences of pictures to remember and recreate. They will also play games where they will pay attention to a certain amount of time to earn points.

Where will the study take place?

Boys Town National Research Hospital
555 N 30th Street
Omaha, NE 68131

Compensation

Research participants will receive $5 per 15 minutes of testing.

For more information, or to sign up, please contact the Working Memory and Language Lab at wmll@boystown.org.