Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Previous research evaluating the influence of category knowl-edge on memory found that children, like adults, rely on cat-egory information to facilitate recall (Duffy, Huttenlocher, &Crawford, 2006). A model that combines category and targetinformation (Integrative) provides a superior fit to preschoolersrecall data compared to a category only (Prototype) and targetonly (Target) model (Macias, Persaud, Hemmer, & Bonawitz,in revision). Utilizing data and computational approaches fromMacias et al., (in revision), we explore whether individual andage-related differences persist in the model fits. Results re-vealed that a greater proportion of preschoolers recall was bestfit by the Prototype model and trials where children displayedindividuating behaviors, such as spontaneously labeling, werealso best fit by the Prototype model. Furthermore, the best fit-ting model varied by age. This work demonstrates a rich com-plexity and variation in recall between developmental groupsthat can be illuminated by computationally evaluating individ-ual differences.