![]() ![]() Then, at the end of this 2 month delay period, children were tested on their color knowledge and then asked which color had activated the bubble machine 2 months ago. The experimenters returned to each preschool once per week for the following 8 weeks to play a color naming game with each class for about 1 hour each time. The experimenters surreptitiously activated the machine only when the correct color soap was added. Over the course of two days, 80 two-year-olds individually interacted with the bubble machine, pouring differently colored bubble soaps into the machine. ![]() In " Fragile But Real: Children's Capacity to Use Newly Acquired Words to Convey Preverbal Memories," authors Morris & Baker-Ward brought a remote-controlled bubble machine with six colors of bubble mixture to several preschools, tested children on their knowledge of color names, and then told children that the machine would only work when a particular color was used (the experimenters pointed to, but did not name, this color of soap). A recent study in Child Development may challenge this hypothesis, as described below. One potential reason for this inaccessibility is that adults tend to use language in encoding and retrieving memories, and this strategy may not be sufficient for retrieving memories formed in early-life, which may have been encoded before language is firmly entrenched in the developing brain. Some evidence indicates that these early-life memories are not actually lost or forgotten, but are rather merely mislabeled or otherwise inaccessible to adult cognition. Infantile "amnesia" refers to the apparent absence or weakness of memories formed at ages younger than 3 or 4. ![]()
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