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

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

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.

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In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology Volume 13 / Issue 2 (2015) , S. 231-240; eissn:1740-5610
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@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-202108254646,
  author    ={Wille, Claudia and Völker, Franziska and Kühnel, Jessica and Ebersbach, Mirjam},
  title    ={Verbal facilitation effects instead of verbal overshadowing in face memory of 4- to 6-year olds},
  keywords ={150 and Kognitive Entwicklung and Kleinkind and Visualisierung and Verbalisierung and Wiedererkennen},
  copyright  ={https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/},
  language ={en},
  journal  ={European Journal of Developmental Psychology},
  year   ={2015}
}