Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Child Dev. 2018 Nov;89(6):e520-e534. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12972. Epub 2017 Oct 3.
This was a prospective study of earliest memories across 8 years for 37 children who were of age 4-9 years initially. In three interviews (initial and after 2 and 8 years) children provided their three earliest memories; those from earlier interviews that were not spontaneously provided later were cued. There was little consistency in the earliest memory or overlap across interviews in spontaneous memories. The youngest group also forgot over half their initial memories although few were forgotten by older children. For consistency of content, 25%-32% of information by former 6- to 9-year-olds was the same after 8 years, but < 10% provided by the youngest children was the same and 22% was contradictory. Emotion and contextual coherence predicted memory retention.
这是一项针对 37 名 4-9 岁儿童最早记忆的 8 年前瞻性研究。在三次访谈（初始访谈以及 2 年和 8 年后）中，孩子们提供了他们的三个最早的记忆；之前访谈中没有自发提供的记忆在后续访谈中被提示。在自发记忆中，最早的记忆或跨访谈的重叠很少具有一致性。最年轻的组也忘记了一半以上的初始记忆，尽管年长的孩子中很少有人忘记。为了保持内容的一致性，前 6 至 9 岁的儿童中有 25%-32%的信息在 8 年后是相同的，但最年轻的儿童提供的信息不到 10%是相同的，22%是矛盾的。情绪和上下文连贯性预测了记忆保留。
