Three-year-olds' memory for a person met only once at the age of 12months: Very long-term memory revealed by a late-manifesting novelty preference

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 49-56

  Kingo, Osman Skjold ^a   Staugaard, Søren Risløv ^a   Krøjgaard, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Childhood amnesia; Early childhood; Eye tracking; Infancy; Long term memory; Verbal recognition; Visual paired comparison

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONVERBAL MEMORY; NOVELTY PREFERENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL MEMORY; VIDEOTAPE; VISUAL STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EYE MOVEMENT; OCULOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; TIME;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892535833     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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