Adaptive memory: Young children show enhanced retention of fitness-related information

Cognition

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 118-122

  Aslan, Alp ^a   Bäuml, Karl Heinz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive memory; Cognition in children; Episodic memory; Evolutionary psychology; Survival processing in children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FITNESS; HUMAN; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SURVIVAL;

EID: 81055157608     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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