Abstract
A 3-year-old child may spontaneously recall and talk about a recent event, such as the visit of a friend, even though unable to remember the same event when asked specific questions. This phenomenon illustrates the difference between implicit and explicit remembering. In the present study, we presented 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds with pictures of common objects; then we assessed implicit remembering with a word-production test, and explicit remembering with a recall test. Performance on the latter test showed the expected increase across age groups. In contrast, word-production performance showed comparable memory benefits across age groups. This pattern of findings mirrors age changes in memory performance that occur in late adulthood and in patients with anterograde memory deficits.
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