REACTIVATION OF TODDLERS EVENT MEMORY

Toddlers of 14 and 18 months learned to produce target actions for six activities, were allowed to forget their training, and were reminded of the activities 8 or 10 weeks later, depending on their age. Reminde rs were administered in a memory-reactivation paradigm in which toddle rs were shown the target actions of three of the six activities but we re not allowed to imitate the modelled actions. Toddlers were tested f or their recall of all six activities 24 hours after the reactivation treatment. Toddlers who were passively exposed to three activities dur ing the reactivation session recalled more activities than controls wh o either were not reminded or did not originally engage in the activit ies. This study reveals that 14- and 18-month-olds encode components o f an event associatively and that they are able to remember seemingly forgotten components through passive re-exposure to other components o f the event.