Crawling is Associated with More Flexible Memory Retrieval by 9-Month-Old Infants

Autor/inn/en	Herbert, Jane; Gross, Julien; Hayne, Harlene
Titel	Crawling is Associated with More Flexible Memory Retrieval by 9-Month-Old Infants
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 10 (2007) 2, S.183-189 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00548.x
Schlagwörter	Infants; Memory; Psychomotor Skills; Developmental Stages; Child Development; Developmental Psychology; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Recall (Psychology); Visual Stimuli; Observation; Retention (Psychology); Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Gedächtnis; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Kindesentwicklung; Entwicklungspsychologie; Abberufung; Beobachtung; Merkfähigkeit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	In the present experiment, we used a deferred imitation paradigm to explore the effect of crawling on memory retrieval by 9-month-old human infants. Infants observed an experimenter demonstrate a single target action with a novel object and their ability to reproduce that action was assessed after a 24-hr delay. Some infants were tested with the demonstration stimulus in the demonstration context and some infants were tested with a different stimulus in a different context. Half of the infants in each test condition were crawling at the time of participation and half were not. Both crawling and non-crawling infants exhibited retention when tested with the demonstration stimulus in the demonstration context, but only infants who were crawling by 9 months of age exhibited retention when tested with a different stimulus in a different context. These findings demonstrate that the onset of independent locomotion is associated with more flexible memory retrieval during the first year of life. (As Provided).
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