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Children ages 7 and older easily use organisational strategies (sorting at encoding and clustering at recall) when memorizing information in order to maximize recall. Much is known about determinants of the production of these strategies, like item typicality, age, and training. However the extent to which such strategies can be efficiently transferred in similar but different tasks (transfer tasks) has been poorly studied. Based on the transfer model by Klahr and Chen (2011), this project aims to vary in a systematic way the similarities between tasks and between contexts in order to better understand whether these strategies can be correctly transferred and keep their benefit on recall in several transfer tasks. We also investigate the role of training transfer skills, through tasks presented on a digital tablet.