PubMed · 6658456
Memory retrieval: a time-locked process in infancy.
Abstract
Three-month-old infants learned to activate an overhead crib mobile by operant footkicking and received a visual reminder of the event (a "reactivation treatment") 2 weeks later, after forgetting had occurred. Subsequent manifestation of the association was a monotonic increasing function of time since the reactivation treatment, and performance of infants tested 8 hours after the remainder was related to the time spent sleeping in the interim (r = 0.75). These data demonstrate that normal retrieval is time-dependent. Moreover, individual data suggest that retrieval may be continuous rather than discontinuous.
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J W Fagen, C Rovee-Collier. 1983-12-23. Memory retrieval: a time-locked process in infancy.. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6658456
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