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No words - no memory

12.10.2002

Psychologists have long been interested in the question of what determines at what age a person's first memories are deposited.

As the New Zealand psychologists have now shown, it is a matter of acquiring the gift of speech. People can describe the events they remember using only the words they knew at the time the events happened. Gabrielle Simcock and Harleen Hayne of the University of Otago created an interesting and memorable event for young children at the age when a child is just starting to speak. They went to the house of 2-3-year-old kids, bringing with them a "magic box" - a large box with levers and buttons that made funny sounds.

The children were shown that they could put a toy in the box, close the lid and press a couple of buttons, after which the toy would disappear and a smaller one would appear instead. At the same time, psychologists recorded what vocabulary the child already possesses.

A year later, the experimenters appeared again. Children eagerly recalled their last visit and how to use the box. But before that, the scientists asked the children to describe what the game was about. Although the lexicon of all the babies increased significantly over the year, they described the first meeting with scientists only with the words that were at their disposal a year ago.

So, if there is some information left in your memory from the time when you could not speak, you cannot extract it and put it into words. In addition, this experiment shows that a person will have more early memories the earlier he learns to speak.

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