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Trajectories of cognitive and neural development suggest that, despite its early developmental emergence, the ability to extract patterns from the environment changes across childhood. Here, 5-9-year-olds and adults (N=211, 110 female) completed a memory test to assess what they remembered after structured exposure to a stream of shape triplets: the particular sequence in which the shapes occurred, their group-level structure, or both? After accounting for developmental improvements in overall memory, all ages were sensitive to specific transitions, while order-independent group memory was only observed in older children and adults. Thus, while young children form memories for specifics of structured experience, memory for associative gist is refined later—underscoring that adults and young children form different memories despite identical experience. |
