The Developing Impact of Verbal Labels

Reflection on The Developing Impact of Verbal Labels on Visual Memories in Children, Our labeling manipulation showed that spontaneous labeling increased with age. For the youngest children, prompted labeling especially boosted categorical memory, whereas labeling benefited categorical and continuous memory similarly in the older age groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Do labels hurt or help memory?
Abstract. It has been shown that labeling nonsense pictures improves memory for them, but how the label takes effect is uncertain

The developing impact of verbal labels on visual memories in children. – PsycNET (apa.org)