The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) assessed their cohort members (CMs) at 61 months’ age (Children in Focus Clinic) using a measure of Short-term Memory (Nonword Repetition).
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
Domain: | Verbal memory |
Measures: | Short-term memory |
Memory Span | |
CHC: | Gsm (Short-term memory) |
Administration method: | Trained interviewer; clinical setting; questions answered orally |
Procedure: | The child was presented with 40 nonwords (10 each containing 2, 3, 4 and 5 syllables) played on an audio cassette recorder. The child was asked to repeat each item after it was played. The number of correctly repeated words at each syllable length was recorded. |
Link to questionnaire: | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/our-data/clinical-measures/ (opens in new tab) |
Scoring: | Number of correct 2 - 5 syllable words (0 - 10) |
Total number of correct words (0 - 40) | |
Item-level variable(s): | cf470 - cf476 |
Total score/derived variable(s): | cf475 |
Descriptives: | Raw score |
N = 943 | |
Range = 0 - 35 | |
Mean = 17.91 | |
SD = 7.33 | |
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Age of participants (months): | Mean = 67.19, SD = 0.8, Range = 65 - 73 |
Other sweep and/or cohort: | ALSPAC – Age 8.5 – Short Term Memory (Non-word Repetition) |
Source: | Gathercole, S. E., & Baddeley, A. D. (1996). The children's test of nonword repetition. Pearson. |
Technical resources: | None |
Reference examples: | Gathercole, S. E., Tiffany, C., Briscoe, J., Thorn, A., & ALSPAC team. (2005). Developmental consequences of poor phonological short-term memory function in childhood: A longitudinal study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46(6), 598-611. |
Gathercole, S. E., Briscoe, J., Thorn, A., Tiffany, C., & ALSPAC Study Team. (2008). Deficits in verbal long-term memory and learning in children with poor phonological short-term memory skills. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(3), 474-490. |
For the named items in the table above, links are provided to their corresponding content on CLOSER Discovery. Where a variable range is provided, full variable lists can be accessed through the ‘Variable Groups’ tab on the linked Discovery page.
Go to:
- Overview of all cognitive measures in ALSPAC
- Overview of childhood cognitive measures across all studies
This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.