| Seven-month-old infants chunk items in memory. | |
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PMID: 22575845 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Although working memory has a highly constrained capacity limit of three or four items, both adults and toddlers can increase the total amount of stored information by "chunking" object representations in memory. To examine the developmental origins of chunking, we used a violation-of-expectation procedure to ask whether 7-month-old infants, whose working memory capacity is still maturing, also can chunk items in memory. In Experiment 1, we found that in the absence of chunking cues, infants failed to remember three identical hidden objects. In Experiments 2 and 3, we found that infants successfully remembered three hidden objects when provided with overlapping spatial and featural chunking cues. In Experiment 4, we found that infants did not chunk when provided with either spatial or featural chunking cues alone. Finally, in Experiment 5, we found that infants also failed to chunk when spatial and featural cues specified different chunks (i.e., were pitted against each other). Taken together, these results suggest that chunking is available before working memory capacity has matured but still may undergo important development over the first year of life. |
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Authors:
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Mariko Moher; Arin S Tuerk; Lisa Feigenson |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Date: 2012-05-09 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of experimental child psychology Volume: 112 ISSN: 1096-0457 ISO Abbreviation: J Exp Child Psychol Publication Date: 2012 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2012-06-12 Completed Date: 2012-10-26 Revised Date: 2013-04-16 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 2985128R Medline TA: J Exp Child Psychol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 361-77 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. mmoher@wjh.harvard.edu |
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Child Psychology* Cues Female Humans Infant Male Memory, Short-Term* Mental Recall |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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HD054416/HD/NICHD NIH HHS; R03 HD054416-02/HD/NICHD NIH HHS |
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