language and encoding specify hypothesis

• the coding specify hypothesis suggest that retrieval is most effective when cues available at the time of recall match those present during encoding
• language plays a big role as its powerful context
• 27 33 and 39 month old babies were shown shrink objects using a magic shrinking machine
• they were asked to recall the event 6 months to a year later
• none of the children used new vocab from when they first described the objects