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Tashauna L Blankenship¹, Que Anh Pham²

¹Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, 02125, USA. tashauna.blankenship@umb.edu.

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Preschoolers aged 3 and 4 can use memories to plan in new situations, but 2-year-olds cannot. Inhibitory control supports this memory-guided planning development in young children.

Keywords:

Episodic memory Inhibitory control Planning

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Neuroscience

Background:

Flexible memory use is crucial for planning.
Understanding the emergence of memory-guided planning in children is limited.
Early childhood is a critical period for developing cognitive control.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how preschoolers generalize memories for planning.
To identify age-related differences in memory-guided planning.
To explore the role of inhibitory control in this ability.

Main Methods:

Assessed memory generalization in planning tasks.
Studied 76 preschoolers aged 2, 3, and 4 years.
Measured individual differences in inhibitory control.

Main Results:

3 and 4-year-olds demonstrated flexible memory generalization.
2-year-olds struggled to apply memories across contexts.
Inhibitory control significantly predicted planning performance.

Conclusions:

Memory-guided planning develops significantly between ages 2 and 3.
Inhibitory control is a key mechanism supporting early planning abilities.
Findings inform our understanding of cognitive development in early childhood.