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Crawling is associated with more flexible memory retrieval by 9‐month‐old infants

Crawling is associated with more flexible memory retrieval by 9‐month‐old infants 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Developmental Science Wiley

Crawling is associated with more flexible memory retrieval by 9‐month‐old infants

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
ISSN
1363-755X
eISSN
1467-7687
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00548.x
pmid
17286842
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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.

Journal

Developmental ScienceWiley

Published: Mar 1, 2007

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