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Barr R, Brito N, Simcock G. Revisiting the effect of reminders on infants' media memories: does the encoding format matter? Dev Psychol 2013; 49:2112-9. [PMID: 23356528 PMCID: PMC11187983 DOI: 10.1037/a0031759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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With the present research, the authors examined whether reminders could maintain 18-month-olds' memories generated from picture books and videos. Infants (N = 98) were shown a series of target actions in a picture book or on video. Either 24 hr or 2 weeks prior to a 4-week deferred imitation test, they were exposed to a reminder, a partial presentation of the original media demonstration. After both reminder delays, groups that received a video demonstration and a video reminder (video/video) performed significantly better than did the video-reminder-only control group (x/video), but groups that received a picture-book demonstration and a picture-book reminder (book/book) did not perform better than did the picture-book-reminder-only control (x/book). Additionally, if reminders did not veridically match the conditions of encoding (e.g., video demonstration and a book reminder, video/book or vice versa), infants also failed to perform better than controls. Theoretical implications for the understanding of long-term memory processing during early childhood and practical implications for early multimedia usage are discussed.
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Barr R. Memory Constraints on Infant Learning From Picture Books, Television, and Touchscreens. CHILD DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Jones SS. Human toddlers' attempts to match two simple behaviors provide no evidence for an inherited, dedicated imitation mechanism. PLoS One 2012; 7:e51326. [PMID: 23251500 PMCID: PMC3519587 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2012] [Accepted: 10/31/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Influential theories of imitation have proposed that humans inherit a neural mechanism - an "active intermodal matching " (AIM) mechanism or a mirror neuron system - that functions from birth to automatically match sensory input from others' actions to motor programs for performing those same actions, and thus produces imitation. To test these proposals, 160 1- to 2½-year-old toddlers were asked to imitate two simple movements- bending the arm to make an elbow, and moving the bent elbow laterally. Both behaviors were almost certain to be in each child's repertoire, and the lateral movement was goal-directed (used to hit a plastic cup). Thus, one or both behaviors should have been imitable by toddlers with a functioning AIM or mirror neuron system. Each child saw the two behaviors repeated 18 times, and was encouraged to imitate. Children were also asked to locate their own elbows. Almost no children below age 2 imitated either behavior. Instead, younger children gave clear evidence of a developmental progression, from reproducing only the outcome of the models' movements (hitting the object), through trying (but failing) to reproduce the model's arm posture and/or the arm-cup relations they had seen, to accurate imitation of arm bending by age 2 and of both movements by age 2½. Across age levels, almost all children who knew the word 'elbow' imitated both behaviors: very few who did not know the word imitated either behavior. The evidence is most consistent with a view of early imitation as the product of a complex system of language, cognitive, social, and motor competencies that develop in infancy. The findings do not rule out a role for an inherited neural mechanism, but they suggest that such a system would not by itself be sufficient to explain imitation at any age.
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- Susan S Jones
- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
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Taylor G, Herbert JS. Eye tracking infants: investigating the role of attention during learning on recognition memory. Scand J Psychol 2012. [PMID: 23198776 DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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In the present study, eye tracker methodology was used to explore whether there were age-related changes in the focus of infant attention during a learning event and subsequent recognition memory for event features. Six- and 9-month old infants watched a video of an adult demonstrating a sequence of actions with an object while visual attention was recorded using an eye tracker. At both ages, attention was focused primarily on the object and person, with the background attended to for approximately 12% of their viewing time. Recognition memory for the person, object and background from the video was assessed immediately using a Visual Paired Comparison procedure. Despite focusing on the central features while watching the target video, infants showed only limited evidence of recognition memory for the individual components of the event. Taken together, these findings suggest that the early age-related changes in memory performance seen in the literature may not be the result of age-related changes in attentional focus during encoding.
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- Gemma Taylor
- Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Zack E, Gerhardstein P, Meltzoff AN, Barr R. 15-month-olds' transfer of learning between touch screen and real-world displays: language cues and cognitive loads. Scand J Psychol 2012; 54:20-5. [PMID: 23121508 DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Infants have difficulty transferring information between 2D and 3D sources. The current study extends Zack, Barr, Gerhardstein, Dickerson & Meltzoff's (2009) touch screen imitation task to examine whether the addition of specific language cues significantly facilitates 15-month-olds' transfer of learning between touch screens and real-world 3D objects. The addition of two kinds of linguistic cues (object label plus verb or nonsense name) did not elevate action imitation significantly above levels observed when such language cues were not used. Language cues hindered infants' performance in the 3D→2D direction of transfer, but only for the object label plus verb condition. The lack of a facilitative effect of language is discussed in terms of competing cognitive loads imposed by conjointly transferring information across dimensions and processing linguistic cues in an action imitation task at this age.
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Dickerson K, Gerhardstein P, Zack E, Barr R. Age-related changes in learning across early childhood: a new imitation task. Dev Psychobiol 2012; 55:719-32. [PMID: 22786801 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Accepted: 06/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Imitation plays a critical role in social and cognitive development, but the social learning mechanisms contributing to the development of imitation are not well understood. We developed a new imitation task designed to examine social learning mechanisms across the early childhood period. The new task involves assembly of abstract-shaped puzzle pieces in an arbitrary sequence on a magnet board. Additionally, we introduce a new scoring system that extends traditional goal-directed imitation scoring to include measures of both children's success at copying gestures (sliding the puzzle pieces) and goals (connecting the puzzle pieces). In Experiment 1, we demonstrated an age-invariant baseline from 1.5 to 3.5 years of age, accompanied by age-related changes in success at copying goals and gestures from a live demonstrator. In Experiment 2, we applied our new task to learning following a video demonstration. Imitation performance in the video demonstration group lagged behind that of the live demonstration group, showing a protracted video deficit effect. Across both experiments, children were more likely to copy gestures at earlier ages, suggesting mimicry, and only later copy both goals and gestures, suggesting imitation. Taken together, the findings suggest that different social learning strategies may predominate in imitation learning dependent upon the degree of object affordance, task novelty, and task complexity.
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- Kelly Dickerson
- Department of Psychology, Binghamton University-SUNY, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
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Hopper LM, Lambeth SP, Schapiro SJ. An evaluation of the efficacy of video displays for use with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Am J Primatol 2012; 74:442-9. [PMID: 22318867 PMCID: PMC3823527 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2011] [Revised: 11/23/2011] [Accepted: 11/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Video displays for behavioral research lend themselves particularly well to studies with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), as their vision is comparable to humans', yet there has been no formal test of the efficacy of video displays as a form of social information for chimpanzees. To address this, we compared the learning success of chimpanzees shown video footage of a conspecific compared to chimpanzees shown a live conspecific performing the same novel task. Footage of an unfamiliar chimpanzee operating a bidirectional apparatus was presented to 24 chimpanzees (12 males, 12 females), and their responses were compared to those of a further 12 chimpanzees given the same task but with no form of information. Secondly, we also compared the responses of the chimpanzees in the video display condition to responses of eight chimpanzees from a previously published study of ours, in which chimpanzees observed live models. Chimpanzees shown a video display were more successful than those in the control condition and showed comparable success to those that saw a live model. Regarding fine-grained copying (i.e. the direction that the door was pushed), only chimpanzees that observed a live model showed significant matching to the model's methods with their first response. Yet, when all the responses made by the chimpanzees were considered, comparable levels of matching were shown by chimpanzees in both the live and video conditions.
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- Lydia M Hopper
- Language Research Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.
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Brito N, Barr R, McIntyre P, Simcock G. Long-term transfer of learning from books and video during toddlerhood. J Exp Child Psychol 2012; 111:108-19. [PMID: 21911223 PMCID: PMC3185162 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2011] [Revised: 08/05/2011] [Accepted: 08/07/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Television viewing and picture book reading are prevalent activities during toddlerhood, and research has shown that toddlers can imitate from both books and videos after short delays. This is the first study to directly compare toddlers' long-term retention rates for target actions learned from a video or book. Toddlers (N=158) at 18- and 24-months of age saw an experimenter demonstrating how to make a novel three-step toy rattle via a prerecorded video or a picture book. The toddlers' imitation of the target actions was tested after a specific delay (e.g., 2, 4 weeks), and their performance was compared with that of age-matched controls who did not see a demonstration. The 18-month-olds retained the target actions for 2 weeks, exhibiting forgetting at 4 weeks, whereas the 24-month-olds retained the information for up to 4 weeks, exhibiting forgetting at 8 weeks. Retention rates for books and videos did not differ at either age. These findings demonstrate very impressive retention from a brief two-dimensional media demonstration, and they contribute to our overall understanding of long-term memory processes during infancy.
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Looking good versus doing good: Which factors take precedence when children learn about new tools? J Exp Child Psychol 2011; 110:575-91. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2010] [Revised: 05/28/2011] [Accepted: 06/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Hupp JM, Sloutsky VM. Learning to learn: From within-modality to cross-modality transfer during infancy. J Exp Child Psychol 2011; 110:408-21. [PMID: 21663920 PMCID: PMC3142657 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2011] [Revised: 05/06/2011] [Accepted: 05/10/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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One critical aspect of learning is the ability to apply learned knowledge to new situations. This ability to transfer is often limited, and its development is not well understood. The current research investigated the development of transfer between 8 and 16 months of age. In Experiment 1, 8- and 16-month-olds (who were established to have a preference to the beginning of a visual sequence) were trained to attend to the end of a sequence. They were then tested on novel visual sequences. Results indicated transfer of learning, with both groups changing baseline preferences as a result of training. In Experiment 2, participants were trained to attend to the end of a visual sequence and were then tested on an auditory sequence. Unlike Experiment 1, only older participants exhibited transfer of learning by changing baseline preferences. These findings suggest that the generalization of learning becomes broader with development, with transfer across modalities developing later than transfer within a modality.
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- Julie M Hupp
- Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University at Newark, Newark, OH 43055, USA.
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Damm F, Petermann F, Petermann U. Imitationsfähigkeit von Kleinkindern in den ersten beiden Lebensjahren. PSYCHOLOGISCHE RUNDSCHAU 2011. [DOI: 10.1026/0033-3042/a000072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Zusammenfassung. Die Imitation repräsentiert eine wichtige kognitive und sozial-kognitive Fähigkeit in der frühen Kindheit. In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten konzentrierte sich die Kleinkindforschung hauptsächlich auf die Untersuchung der verzögerten Imitation als nonverbales deklaratives Gedächtnismaß und der Imitation im Zusammenhang mit dem Intentionsverständnis. Ergebnisse von Längsschnittstudien zeigen zudem, dass individuelle Unterschiede in der verzögerten Imitationsleistung mit weiteren kognitiven, aber auch mit sprachlichen und sozialen Fertigkeiten assoziiert sind. Studien, die neue Präsentationsmedien (z.B. Videopräsentationen) nutzen, konnten bisherige Ergebnisse zu zugrunde liegenden kognitiven Prozessen bestätigen. Darüber hinaus erweitern sie unseren Kenntnisstand über die Bedeutung der sozialen Interaktion für das Imitationslernen. Für zukünftige Forschungsarbeiten zu diesem Thema ergibt sich, dass aufgrund der engen Beziehung zwischen dem Imitationsverhalten und anderen Fertigkeiten umfassendere Längsschnittstudien erforderlich sind, die individuelle Merkmale des Kindes, aber auch Merkmale seiner sozialen Umgebung in der Analyse der Imitation stärker berücksichtigen.
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Barr R, Linebarger DL. Special issue on the content and context of early media exposure. INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/icd.716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Courage ML, Setliff AE. When babies watch television: Attention-getting, attention-holding, and the implications for learning from video material. DEVELOPMENTAL REVIEW 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.dr.2010.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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