Do illustrations enhance preschoolers’ memories for stories? Age-related change in the picture facilitation effect

Narrative Comprehension Abilities of Children with Typical Hearing and Children Using Hearing Aids: A Pilot Study

“…The ability to tune into the visual illustrations while simultaneously processing the oral narratives may have made the material more tangible, allowing the children with hearing loss to create a better framework in which to organize the verbal content (Levin & Mayer, 1993). Similar facilitation effects of illustrations have previously been reported for children without hearing loss (Greenhoot & Semb, 2008). Illustrations are typically representative of the story content, as they were in the case of the test story used in this investigation.…”

Investigation of an Activity-Based Text-Processing Strategy in Mixed-Age Child Dyads

“…Furthermore, this hypothesis parallels the dual representation hypothesis (DeLoache, 2000;Uttal, Scudder, & DeLoache, 1997), an empirically supported developmental hypothesis suggesting that young children, around 30 months of age, are often unaware that instructional manipulatives are representations of abstract contexts. As noted earlier, Greenhoot and Semb (2008) found analogous age-related differences in preschool students' ability to benefit from pictures provided with narratives. On the basis of these related findings, it is of considerable interest to identify developmental transitions in children's picture-processing and imagery-generation abilities.…”

“…Greenhoot and Semb (2008) performed a listening study with preschool children that framed its theoretical predictions within dual-coding theory. In this study, children listened to stories under one of four presentation formats: (a) verbal and picture, in which children listened to a story along with pictures of story events; (b) verbal and irrelevant picture, in which children listened to a story accompanied by unrelated pictures; (c) verbal only, in which children listened to stories without pictorial support; and (d) picture only, in which children viewed pictures of story events.…”

Neural correlates of second language reading comprehension in the presence of congruous and incongruous illustrations

“…2002; Garner, Gillingham, & White, 1989;Greenhoot & Semb, 2008). However, to date, few studies have explored the neural correlates of reading comprehension in the presence of illustrations, and, to the best of our knowledge, the current study is the first study using fMRI to explore the effects of text illustrations.…”