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T1 - 6-, 10-, and 12-month-olds remember complex dynamic events across 2 weeks
AU - Sonne, Trine
AU - Kingo, Osman S.
AU - Krøjgaard, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s)
PY - 2023/5
Y1 - 2023/5
N2 - Whereas infants’ ability to remember simple static material (e.g., pictures) has been documented extensively, we know surprisingly little about infants’ memory of dynamic events (i.e., events unfolding in time) in the first year after birth. Although there is evidence to suggest that infants show some kind of sensitivity toward complex dynamic events (i.e., events involving agents and a storyline) as indicated by visual engagement in the first year after birth, 16- to 18-month-olds are hitherto the youngest infants documented to remember such material. Using a visual paired-comparison (VPC) task, in Experiment 1 we examined 6-, 10-, and 12-month-olds’ (N = 108) ability to encode and remember cartoons involving complex dynamic events across 2 weeks. Results showed that all age groups remembered these cartoons. To investigate further the role of a complex storyline, in Experiment 2 we assessed the memory of 107 infants of the same age groups for similar cartoons but without coherent storyline information by scrambling the temporal presentation of the information in the cartoons. The results showed that the two youngest age groups did not remember this version. To our knowledge, this is the first experiment to document memory for such complex material in young infants using VPC.
AB - Whereas infants’ ability to remember simple static material (e.g., pictures) has been documented extensively, we know surprisingly little about infants’ memory of dynamic events (i.e., events unfolding in time) in the first year after birth. Although there is evidence to suggest that infants show some kind of sensitivity toward complex dynamic events (i.e., events involving agents and a storyline) as indicated by visual engagement in the first year after birth, 16- to 18-month-olds are hitherto the youngest infants documented to remember such material. Using a visual paired-comparison (VPC) task, in Experiment 1 we examined 6-, 10-, and 12-month-olds’ (N = 108) ability to encode and remember cartoons involving complex dynamic events across 2 weeks. Results showed that all age groups remembered these cartoons. To investigate further the role of a complex storyline, in Experiment 2 we assessed the memory of 107 infants of the same age groups for similar cartoons but without coherent storyline information by scrambling the temporal presentation of the information in the cartoons. The results showed that the two youngest age groups did not remember this version. To our knowledge, this is the first experiment to document memory for such complex material in young infants using VPC.
KW - cartoon
KW - Dynamic material
KW - Eye-tracking
KW - Infant memory
KW - storyline
KW - Visual paired-comparison
U2 - 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105627
DO - 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105627
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36696740
AN - SCOPUS:85146602541
VL - 229
JO - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
SN - 0022-0965
M1 - 105627
ER -