Bugaiska Aurélia, Bonin Patrick, Witt Arnaud
LEAD-CNRS UMR 5022, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France.
Front Psychol. 2023 May 10;14:1141540. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1141540. eCollection 2023.
It has repeatedly been shown in adults that animates are remembered better than inanimates. According to the adaptive view of human memory this is due to the fact that animates are generally more important for survival than inanimates. Animacy enhances not only the quantity but also the quality of remembering. The effect is primarily driven by recollection. Virtually all studies have been conducted in adults, and we believe that the investigation of animacy effects in children is also highly relevant. The present study therefore tested the animacy effect on recollection in young (6-7 years, = 6.6 years) and older children (10-12 years, = 10.83 years) using the Remember/Know paradigm. As found in adults, an animacy effect on memory was found, but only in older children, and specifically in the "remember" responses, suggesting, once again, its episodic nature.
在成年人中反复表明，有生命的物体比无生命的物体更容易被记住。根据人类记忆的适应性观点，这是因为有生命的物体通常比无生命的物体对生存更重要。有生命性不仅提高了记忆的数量，也提高了记忆的质量。这种效应主要由回忆驱动。几乎所有的研究都是在成年人中进行的，我们认为对儿童的有生命性效应进行研究也具有高度相关性。因此，本研究使用记住/知道范式测试了有生命性对年幼（6 - 7岁，平均年龄 = 6.6岁）和年长儿童（10 - 12岁，平均年龄 = 10.83岁）回忆的影响。正如在成年人中发现的那样，发现了有生命性对记忆的影响，但仅在年长儿童中，特别是在“记住”反应中，再次表明了其情景记忆的性质。
