ABSTRACT
Recall has traditionally been classed as one of the higher cognitive functions just because it requires a re-presentation, or conceptualization, of the world. In conjunction with the work of Meltzoff, these experiments show that infants as young as 9 months can encode novel events from a brief period of observational learning and at least by 11 months can recall wellorganized events after very long delays. The length of time taken to order the statements as well as the errors indicate that far from being able to reproduce the sequences in any automatic way, the subjects could not even recall the ordering with ease, although with effort they usually could figure out how the sequences should be put together. The usual functioning of the perceptual system is automatic and implicit; perceptual information is accrued and stored without effort or attention from the perceiver.
