{"pk":49925,"title":"An Effective Strategy to Reduce Interference: Effects of Unitization on the Development of Memory Binding","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Memory binding is the ability to bind together multiple components in a memory trace. Previous studies have shown that one way to improve memory binding is to integrate multiple components into the same item in a meaningful way – a strategy known as unitization. To further investigate unitization as a source of development of memory binding, in terms of whether a unitization strategy has different effects on different memory structures and different age groups, the current study incorporated a semantic unitization strategy into a memory binding task and recruited multiple age groups for the experiment. Results showed that unitization led to a marked improvement in three-way binding for 7-year-olds and adults, but not for 5-year-olds, suggesting that semantic unitization could be a driving force for the development of complex memory binding in childhood and even beyond adulthood, but its effect in young children might still be limited due to their immaturity.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"memory"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4642r3gk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jiangmeng","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wang","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ohio State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Vladimir","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sloutsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49925/galley/37887/download/"}]}