Researchers from the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada asked 140 children aged from four to 13 years old to describe their three earliest memories. Two years later they did a follow-up interview.
The researchers found that 80 per cent of the fourto seven-year-olds provided all new memories in their second interview, whereas a third of the tento 13-year-olds recalled the same memory as their very earliest when asked two years apart, and more than half of all the memories they provided were the same at both interviews. Younger children were more likely to provide different details two years later about the same events.
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