@article{ref1,
title="When Initial Interviews Are Delayed a Year: Effect on Children's 2-Year Recall",
journal="Law and human behavior",
year="2005",
author="Peterson, Christopher and Pardy, Lisa and Tizzard-Drover, Tracy and Warren, Kelly L.",
volume="29",
number="5",
pages="527-541",
abstract="Three- to nine-year-old children were interviewed about a medical emergency (injury requiring hospital ER treatment) two years after it occurred. Half of the number of children had been interviewed shortly after injury as well as 6 and 12 months later, while the remaining children had had only one prior interview a year after injury. There was remarkably little long-term deterioration in memory by both groups. Having a delayed initial interview had two effects, and both were relevant only to the harder-to-remember hospital treatment event: (a) The late-interview group was less accurate, and (b) early-interview children had more extensive free recall, suggesting that multiple prior interviews teach children the "rules of the memory game'' when they are asked open-ended questions. Forensic implications are discussed.",
language="",
issn="0147-7307",
doi="10.1007/s10979-005-6833-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10979-005-6833-6"
}