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    <volume>152</volume>
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    <title language="eng">The development of adaptive memory: Young children show enhanced retention of animacy-related information</title>
    <abstract language="eng">Previous developmental work has indicated that animacy is a foundational ontogenetic category that is given priority already early in life. Here, we investigated whether such priority is also present in children’s episodic memory, examining whether young children show enhanced retention of animacy-related information. Kindergartners and younger and older elementary school children were presented with fictitious (non)words (e.g., BULA, LAFE) paired with properties characteristic of humans (e.g., “likes music”), (nonhuman) animals (e.g., “builds nests”), and inanimate things (e.g., “has four edges”) and were asked to rate the animacy status of each nonword. After a retention interval, a surprise recognition test for the nonwords was administered. We found enhanced recognition of nonwords paired with human and animal properties compared with (the same) nonwords paired with inanimate properties. The size of this animacy advantage was comparable across age groups, suggesting developmental invariance of the advantage over the age range examined (i.e., 4–11 years). The results support a functional–evolutionary view on memory, suggesting that already young children’s memory is “tuned” to process and retain animacy.</abstract>
    <parentTitle language="eng">Journal of Experimental Child Psychology</parentTitle>
    <identifier type="url">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.07.007</identifier>
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    <author>Alp Aslan</author>
    <author>Thomas John</author>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Cognitive development</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Evolutionary psychology</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Episodic memory</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Adaptive memory</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Ancestral priorities</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Mnemonic animacy advantage in children</value>
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    <thesisPublisher>Technische Hochschule Rosenheim</thesisPublisher>
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