> And what was curious about the study is that all of the participants reverted to using simpler, more child like vocabulary to describe the memories
This correlates well with the study on toddlers I described here[1]. I guess it's not terribly surprising that words are being used to encode events, they're pretty darn good at compressing details.
This correlates well with the study on toddlers I described here[1]. I guess it's not terribly surprising that words are being used to encode events, they're pretty darn good at compressing details.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31719872