The ability to recall the temporal order of events develops much more slowly than the ability to recall facts about events. To explore what processes facilitate memory for temporal information, we tested 3- to 6-year-old children (N = 40) for immediate memory of the temporal order of events from a storybook, using a visual timeline task and a yes/no recognition task. In addition, children completed tasks assessing their understanding of before and after and the executive functions of inhibition using the Day/Night Stroop task and cognitive shifting using the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) task. Older children (Mage = 69.25 months) outperformed younger children (Mage = 52.35 months) on all measures; however, the only significant predictor of memory for the temporal ordering of events was cognitive shifting. The findings suggest that the difficulty in memory for temporal information is related to development of a general cognitive ability, as indexed by the DCCS, rather than specific temporal abilities.

回忆事件的时间顺序的能力比回忆事件事实的能力要慢得多。为了探索促进记忆的时间过程，我们 使用视觉时间轴任务和是/否识别测试了3至6岁的儿童（N = 40）对故事书中事件的时间顺序的即时记忆。任务。此外，孩子们完成评估其理解任务之前和之后，并使用使用维度变化卡片分类（DCCS）任务的日/夜的Stroop任务和认知抑制转移的行政职能。年龄较大的孩子（M年龄= 69.25个月）胜过年龄较小的孩子（M年龄= 52.35个月）；但是，对于事件的时间顺序，记忆的唯一重要预测因子是认知转移。研究结果表明，记忆时间信息的难度与DCCS索引的一般认知能力的发展有关，而不是与特定的时间能力有关。