The effect of repeated reactivations on memory specificity in infancy

Article Abstract:

A study on infants shows that multiple memory reactivations after training with a specific cue in a specific context allow context-dependent memory to become context-free, and reduce specificity of cues required for prior memory retrieval. Infants show high retention rates after two reminders despite a change in context at final reminder. Context specificity gets eliminated faster than cue specificity. Age of the memory determines the number of retrievals necessary to eliminate specificity. Memory becomes less detailed over repeated retrievals and after longer delays.

Analysis, Recognition (Psychology), Memory in infants, Infant memory, Recognition (Memory)

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After the storm: enduring differences in mother-child recollections of traumatic and nontraumatic events

Article Abstract:

This article examines the differences of mother and child recollections of traumatic experiences compared with nontraumatic events. The authors, analyzing mother-child conversations regarding a tornado and two nontraumatic events, found that recollections of the tornado were more coherent and complete than the other recollections.

United States, Product information, Psychological aspects, Testing, Memory, Mother and child, Mother-child relations, Psychic trauma in children, Childhood trauma (Psychology)

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Differential memory-preserving effects of reminders at 6 months

Article Abstract:

The reactivation and reinstatement reminders differ procedurally but the differences in their memory-preserving effects are described as artifactual. The findings suggest that the memory-preserving effect of reinstatement is greater by an order of magnitude.

Evaluation, Operant conditioning, Long-term memory

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