Magic Shrinking Machine memory task
ID: magic-shrinking-machine-memory-task
Children experience a distinctive apparatus that appears to produce smaller versions of toys, and later receive verbal recall, recognition or reenactment tests. Measuring vocabulary at the original event helps separate retained content from what the child can later express verbally.[ref]
Breaking the barrier? Children fail to translate their preverbal memories into language by Gabrielle Simcock and Harlene Hayne. Psychological Science 13, 225–231; Magic Shrinking Machine, verbal and nonverbal tests
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