TY - JOUR A1 - Schommartz, Iryna A1 - Kaindl, Angela M. A1 - Buß, Claudia A1 - Shing, Yee Lee T1 - Short- and long-delay consolidation of memory accessibility and precision across childhood and young adulthood T2 - Developmental psychology N2 - Childhood is a period when memory consolidation and knowledge base undergo rapid changes. The present study examined short-delay (overnight) and long-delay (after a 2-week period) consolidation of new information either congruent or incongruent with prior knowledge in typically developing 6- to 8-year-old children (n = 32), 9- to 11-year-old children (n = 33), and 18- to 30-year-old young adults (YA; n = 39). Both memory accessibility (cued recall of objects) and precision (precision of object placement) of initially well-learned object–scene pairs were measured. Our results showed that overnight, memory accessibility declined similarly in all age groups; memory precision improved more in younger children (YC) compared to older children (OC) and even declined in YA. After a 2-week period, both memory accessibility and precision became worse. Specifically, while age groups showed similar decline in memory accessibility, precision decline was less in YC than in OC and YA. The accessibility and precision of congruent and incongruent information changed similarly with consolidation in all age groups. Taken together, our results showed that, for initially well-learned information, YC have robust memory consolidation, despite their overall lower mnemonic performance compared to OC and YA, which is potentially crucial for stable and precise knowledge accumulation early on in development. KW - episodic memory KW - object–scene pairs KW - memory consolidation KW - congruent and incongruent information KW - prior knowledge Y1 - 2024 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/85692 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-856926 SN - 0012-1649 VL - 60 IS - 5 SP - 891 EP - 903 PB - American Psychological Association CY - Richmond, Va. [u.a.] ER -