Older children and adults often try to retrieve the names of things they saw, but infants would not have encoded the information verbally.
年龄较大的孩子和成人总是试图回忆他们看到的事物的名称，但是，婴儿不会通过语言来对信息进行编码。
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Whether people can remember an event depends critically on the fit between the way in which they earlier encoded the information and the way in which they later attempt to retrieve it.
人们能否记住一件事，主要取决于他们早先为信息编码的方式与后来试图检索信息的方式的吻合程度。
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However, in ants there is no cultural transmission — everything must be encoded in the genes — whereas in humans the opposite is true.