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Infants' memory processing of a serial list: list length effects.

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  • 1Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, USA.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
|April 10, 1999
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Six-month-olds

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Infant memory development is crucial for understanding cognitive processes.
  • The primacy effect, a common memory phenomenon, has not been extensively studied in young infants regarding list length effects.
  • Understanding infant memory systems provides insights into early cognitive architecture.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of list length on serial order memory in 6-month-old infants.
  • To explore whether infants encode serial order information and if this encoding is dependent on the memory test used.
  • To examine evidence for distinct memory systems in early infancy.

Main Methods:

  • Infants were trained on serial lists of mobiles, with list length manipulated across experiments.

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  • Memory recall was assessed using a 24-hour delayed recognition test and a reactivation (priming) test.
  • Experiment 3 involved precuing infants with list items to test the representation of serial order information.

    • Main Results:

    • Increasing list length impaired 6-month-olds' ability to show a primacy effect on delayed recognition tests.
    • Infants demonstrated a primacy effect on a reactivation test, suggesting initial encoding of serial order.
    • Performance on recognition tests improved when precues aligned with learned serial order, indicating memory for order.

    Conclusions:

    • Young infants' memory for serial order is sensitive to list length.
    • A dissociation exists in infant memory performance between delayed recognition and reactivation tests.
    • These findings support the hypothesis of two distinct memory systems operating in early infancy.