Shelbie Sutherland and Andrei Cimpian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Shelbie Sutherland and Andrei Cimpian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Doctoral student Shelbie Sutherland and psychology professor Andrei Cimpian found that young children learn broad facts about the world so readily that they do not remember learning the information and have the illusion that they already knew it.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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