Infant Recognition Memory: Studies in Forgetting

In a series of studies on delayed recognition and forgetting, the failure of 22-week-old infants to recognize which of 2 face photos (e. g., man or woman) had been previously exposed was shown to be influenced by what the infant saw during a retention interval. Highly similar intervening targets (ot...

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Published in:Child development 1977-03, Vol.48 (1), p.68-78
Main Author: Fagan, Joseph F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amnesia - etiology
Amnesia - therapy
Attention
Data lines
Discrimination (Psychology)
Experiment design
Female
Fixation, Ocular
Forgetting
Form Perception
Humans
Infant
Infants
Male
Memory
Orientation
Recognition memory
Reporting standards
Time Factors
Tractors
Visual Perception
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Summary:In a series of studies on delayed recognition and forgetting, the failure of 22-week-old infants to recognize which of 2 face photos (e. g., man or woman) had been previously exposed was shown to be influenced by what the infant saw during a retention interval. Highly similar intervening targets (other face photos) consistently produced failure of recognition. Targets intermediate in similarity (rotated photos) or of low similarity (line drawings) had little effect. Forgetting due to interference with high-similarity targets was shown to be temporary in nature, however, with recovery of recognition occurring after longer retention intervals and forgetting easily offset by further, brief exposure to the familiar stimulus.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1977.tb04244.x