Rule-based category learning in children: the role of age and executive functioning.

PLoS One · 2014 · PMC3906381 · PMID 24489658

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marginally significantp = .057so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The path analysis revealed that when controlling for inhibitory control ability, a marginally significant indirect effect (β = .15, SE = .08, p = .057) was found between age and average categorization through working memory ability, indicating marginally significant mediation.

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Given that the mediation was approaching significance, this may suggest that with age come improvements in working memory capacity, which in turn lead to improvements in rule-based categorization performance.

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