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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wille, Claudia
• Völker, Franziska
• Kühnel, Jessica
• Ebersbach, Mirjam

Titel

Verbal facilitation effects instead of verbal overshadowing in face memory of 4- to 6-year olds

Ist Teil von

• European journal of developmental psychology, 2016-03, Vol.13 (2), p.231-240

Ort / Verlag

Hove: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Research on eye witness memory in older children and adults revealed that verbally describing unfamiliar faces impairs later recognition of these faces, known as the "verbal overshadowing effect". The aim of this study was to investigate whether a verbal overshadowing effect occurs in 4- to 6-year olds, too, and whether visualization (i.e., drawing the seen face) might elicit a visual overshadowing effect. Instead of a verbal overshadowing effect, a verbal facilitation effect was revealed with verbal intelligence being a significant predictor for recognition accuracy in the verbalization group but not in the control group. No effect of visualization was observed on recognition accuracy. Potential explanations for the results are discussed.