Fagan J F
Child Dev. 1977 Mar;48(1):68-78. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1977.tb04244.x.
In a series of studies on delayed recognition and forgetting, the failure of 22-week-old infants to recognize which of 2 face photos (e.g., man or woman) had been previously exposed was shown to be influenced by what the infant saw during a retention interval. Highly similar intervening targets (other face photos) consistently produced failure of recognition. Targets intermediate in similarity (rotated photos) or of low similarity (line drawings) had little effect. Forgetting due to interference with high-similarity targets was shown to be temporary in nature, however, with recovery of recognition occurring after longer retention intervals and forgetting easily offset by further, brief exposure to the familiar stimulus.
在一系列关于延迟识别和遗忘的研究中，22周大的婴儿无法识别之前看过的两张面部照片（如男性或女性）中的哪一张，这一现象被证明会受到婴儿在记忆间隔期所看到事物的影响。高度相似的干扰目标（其他面部照片）持续导致识别失败。相似度中等的目标（旋转照片）或相似度低的目标（线条画）影响很小。然而，由于受到高相似度目标干扰导致的遗忘本质上是暂时的，在更长的记忆间隔期后识别能力会恢复，并且通过再次短暂接触熟悉的刺激，遗忘很容易被抵消。
