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Visual short-term cued recall memory in infancy. 1981

L R Brody

The visual short-term cued recall memory of 8-, 12-, and 16-month-old infants was assessed in 2 experiments using an operant indirect delayed-reaction procedure. Infants were first trained to touch a discriminative stimulus (a light) which appeared randomly in 1 of 2 locations for 3 sec. When infants reached a criterion performance of 5 consecutive correct responses, delay varying in duration were introduced between the offset of the light and the infant's touching response to the location at which it had appeared. In experiment 1, 8-month-olds and 12-month-olds were tested, using 250-msec and 3-, 6-, and 9-sec delays. Results indicated that the location of the discriminative stimulus could be recalled by 8-month-olds at 250-msec delays; and by 12-month-olds at 250-msec and 3-, 6-, and 9-sec delays. In experiment 2, 8-, 12-, and 16-month-olds performed better than chance, while 8-month-olds did not. The amount of visual attention was not related to the correctness of a response and was not used as a mediating strategy. Results are discussed with reference to previous research on the development of recall memory.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D008297	Male		Males
D008568	Memory	Complex mental function having four distinct phases: (1) memorizing or learning, (2) retention, (3) recall, and (4) recognition. Clinically, it is usually subdivided into immediate, recent, and remote memory.
D008570	Memory, Short-Term	Remembrance of information for a few seconds to hours.	Immediate Recall,Memory, Immediate,Working Memory,Memory, Shortterm,Immediate Memories,Immediate Memory,Immediate Recalls,Memories, Immediate,Memories, Short-Term,Memories, Shortterm,Memory, Short Term,Recall, Immediate,Recalls, Immediate,Short-Term Memories,Short-Term Memory,Shortterm Memories,Shortterm Memory,Working Memories
D011939	Mental Recall	The process whereby a representation of past experience is elicited.	Recall, Mental
D002657	Child Development	The continuous sequential physiological and psychological maturing of an individual from birth up to but not including ADOLESCENCE.	Infant Development,Development, Child,Development, Infant
D002666	Psychology, Child	Branch of psychology involving the study of normal and abnormal behavior of children.	Child Psychology,Infant Psychology,Pediatric Psychology,Psychology, Infant,Psychology, Pediatric
D003463	Cues	Signals for an action; that specific portion of a perceptual field or pattern of stimuli to which a subject has learned to respond.	Cue
D004193	Discrimination Learning	Learning that is manifested in the ability to respond differentially to various stimuli.	Discriminative Learning,Discrimination Learnings,Discriminative Learnings,Learning, Discrimination,Learning, Discriminative
D005260	Female		Females