Taylor, G., Liu, H. and Herbert, J.S. orcid.org/0000-0002-8762-4531 (2016) The role of verbal labels on flexible memory retrieval at 12-months of age. Infant Behavior and Development, 45 (Part A). pp. 11-17. ISSN 1934-8800
Abstract
The provision of verbal labels enhances 12-month-old infants’ memory flexibility across a form change in a puppet imitation task (Herbert, 2011), although the mechanisms for this effect remain unclear. Here we investigate whether verbal labels can scaffold flexible memory retrieval when task difficulty increases and consider the mechanism responsible for the effect of language cues on early memory flexibility. Twelve-month-old infants were provided with English, Chinese, or empty language cues during a difficult imitation task, a combined change in the puppet’s colour and form at the test (Hayne et al., 1997). Imitation performance by infants in the English language condition only exceeded baseline performance after the 10-minute delay. Thus, verbal labels facilitated flexible memory retrieval on this task. There were no correlations between infants’ language comprehension and imitation performance. Thus, it is likely that verbal labels facilitate both attention and categorisation during encoding and retrieval.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Elsevier Inc. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Infant Behavior and Development. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
Keywords: | memory flexibility; memory development; imitation; infant |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2016 12:54 |
Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2018 01:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.08.002 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.08.002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103941 |