Children with greater curiosity-related trivia memory benefits also show greater curiosity-related incidental face memory benefits¶

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q2 i2 Exploratory correlation: the curiosity-based enhancement of trivia recall correlated positively with the curiosity-based enhancement of face recognition. → Fandakova Yana 2021

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Fandakova Yana 2021¶

Fandakova Yana, Gruber Matthias J. (2021). States of curiosity and interest enhance memory differently in adolescents and in children. Developmental Science, 24(1), e13005. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13005

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Exploratory correlational analysis relating individual curiosity-based enhancement of trivia answer recall to curiosity-based enhancement of face recognition. The study reports "a significant positive correlation (Pearson’s r = .23, pone-tailed = .036)"; controlling for age did not change the result (r = .23, pone-tailed = .04).

"The results showed a significant positive correlation (Pearson’s r = .23, pone-tailed = .036; Figure 4) such that children who showed a greater benefit of curiosity for trivia answer recall were also most likely to show an enhancement in face memory between the high- and low-curiosity conditions"

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Related Claims¶

• Curiosity enhances learning, including for incidental material encountered during high-curiosity states — related
• States of high pre-answer curiosity enhance memory for trivia answers similarly in children and adolescents — related
• High-curiosity states did not enhance recognition memory for incidental face images in children or adolescents — related