Bidirectional priming in infants |
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Authors: | Rachel?Barr Aurora?Vieira Email author" target="_blank">Carolyn?Rovee-CollierEmail author |
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Institution: | Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8020, USA. rovee@rci.rutgers.edu |
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Abstract: | In associative priming, the direct activation of one concept indirectly activates others that are associated with it, depending on the directionality of the association. We asked whether associative priming in preverbal infants is bidirectional. Infants associated a puppet imitation task with an operant train task by watching an adult model target actions on the puppet in the incidental context of the train. Later, priming of the forgotten memory of the train task reactivated the infants' memory of the puppet task (Experiment 1), and priming of the infants' forgotten memory of the puppet task reactivated their memory of the train task (Experiment 2). The finding that associative priming was bidirectional offers new insights into the nature of the mnemonic networks formed early in infancy. Additionally, the fact that the present association was formed rapidly and incidentally suggests that a fast mapping, general learning mechanism, like that posited to mediate word-object learning, was responsible for its encoding. |
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