More than pretty pictures? How illustrations affect parent-child story reading and children’s story recall

Previous research showed that story illustrations fail to enhance young preschoolers’ memories when they accompany a pre-recorded story (e.g., Greenhoot & Semb, 2008). In this study we tested whether young children might benefit from illustrations in a more interactive story-reading context. For...

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Main Authors: Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Alisa Anne Miller Beyer, Jennifer eCurtis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00738/full