Implicit long-term memory for duration in young children
Titel:
Implicit long-term memory for duration in young children
Auteur:
Rattat, Anne-Claire Droit-Volet, Sylvie
Verschenen in:
European journal of cognitive psychology
Paginering:
Jaargang 19 (2007) nr. 2 pagina's 271-285
Jaar:
2007-03
Inhoud:
The aim of the present study was to investigate young children's ability to maintain in long-term memory a duration of an action they have previously experienced (i.e., implicit long-term memory for duration). Children aged 3 and 5 years were trained to produce an action for 5 s by simultaneous imitation of the experimenter's action. Then, they were tested after a retention interval lasting for 1, 24, or 48 hours (Experiment 1), or 6 days, 6 weeks, or 6 months (Experiment 2). The results showed that the young children remembered the learned duration after 48 hours and 6 months at the age of 3 and 5 years, respectively, although the temporal performance decreased at the 1 hour and the 6 weeks retention intervals for the first and the second age group. These findings are discussed in the framework of a discrepancy in the memory retention of duration as a function of the nature of the memory system, i.e., implicit or explicit.
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