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- Title
Children as Earwitnesses: Memory for Emotional Auditory Events.
- Authors
Burrell, Lisa Victoria; Johnson, Miriam Sinkerud; Melinder, Annika
- Abstract
We examined the influence of age and emotionality of auditory stimuli on long-term memory for environmental sound events. Sixty children aged 7-11 years were presented with two environmental sound events: an emotional car crash and a neutral event, someone brushing their teeth. The sound events comprised six individual environmental sounds, and the participants passively listened to the sound events through a headset. After a two-week delay, participants performed a cued recall task and a recognition task. Independent of age, children were notably poor at recalling the sound events. Children recalled and recognized significantly more sounds from the emotional sound event than the neutral sound event. Additionally, the older children performed the recall task better than the younger children. The present findings confirm and expand the previously reported superiority of emotional material in memory.Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
WITNESSES; AUDITORY perception; CHILD research; TRAFFIC accidents; RECOLLECTION (Psychology); MEMORY in children
- Publication
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2016, Vol 30, Issue 3, p323
- ISSN
0888-4080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/acp.3202