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  • Title: Interactive context integration in children? Evidence from an action memory study.
    Author: Mecklenbräuker S, Steffens MC, Jelenec P, Goergens NK.
    Journal: J Exp Child Psychol; 2011 Apr; 108(4):747-61. PubMed ID: 21215417.
    Abstract:
    Action-object phrases (e.g., "lift the bottle") are remembered better if they have been enacted rather than learned verbally. This enactment effect is largest in free recall for phrases with objects (e.g., "bottle") present because these phrases can be interactively encoded with those context objects (interactive context integration) that serve as retrieval cues. The current study investigated whether 6- and 8-year-olds are already capable of interactive context integration. Experiment 1 demonstrated interactive context integration with 8-year-olds. This was hindered in a condition where attention was directed away from context objects. Experiment 2 demonstrated interactive context integration with 6-year-old kindergartners. Taken together, our findings show that even 6-year-olds are capable of incidental context integration through enactment and that this process is attention based.
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