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Bidirectional priming in infants.

Rachel Barr1, Aurora Vieira, Carolyn Rovee-Collier

  • 1Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8020, USA. rovee@rci.rutgers.edu

Memory & Cognition
|May 31, 2002
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Infant associative priming is bidirectional, meaning activating one memory can recall another related memory. This suggests early learning mechanisms are more sophisticated than previously thought.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Associative priming describes how activating one concept can indirectly activate related concepts.
  • The directionality of associations in priming has been a key area of research.
  • Previous research has not established whether associative priming is bidirectional in preverbal infants.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether associative priming is bidirectional in preverbal infants.
  • To explore the nature of mnemonic networks formed in early infancy.
  • To examine the learning mechanisms responsible for early associative encoding.

Main Methods:

  • Infants were exposed to a puppet imitation task and an operant train task.
  • An adult model demonstrated actions on a puppet within the context of the train task.

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  • Two experiments tested the reactivation of forgotten memories between the two tasks through priming.

    • Main Results:

    • Priming the train task reactivated infants' memory of the puppet task (Experiment 1).
    • Priming the puppet task reactivated infants' memory of the train task (Experiment 2).
    • Associative priming was demonstrated to be bidirectional in preverbal infants.

    Conclusions:

    • Early associative priming in infants is bidirectional.
    • This bidirectional priming offers new insights into infant mnemonic networks.
    • Rapid and incidental association formation suggests a fast mapping learning mechanism in infancy.