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Infant memory
Author(s) -
Bauer Patricia J.,
San Souci Priscilla,
Pathman Thanujeni
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.526
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1939-5086
pISSN - 1939-5078
DOI - 10.1002/wcs.38
Subject(s) - habituation , childhood memory , engram , psychology , long term memory , imitation , memory development , cognitive psychology , trace (psycholinguistics) , cognitive science , perspective (graphical) , developmental psychology , neuroscience , cognitive development , semantic memory , cognition , computer science , artificial intelligence , linguistics , philosophy
This article provides an overview of developments in long‐term memory during the first 2 years of life. Results from three of the most commonly used techniques to assess remembering in preverbal infants—visual paired comparison and visual habituation, conjugate reinforcement, and elicited and deferred imitation—are described. They illustrate infants' ability to encode and retain information as well as the rapid improvements in memory in infancy. A distinction between types or forms of memory is provided in the service of considering how infant memory abilities relate to memory development in early childhood. The review also features discussion of the likely sources of age‐related changes in memory in infancy, including the basic processes of memory trace formation and developments in the neural substrate that subserve them. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This article is categorized under: Psychology > Memory Neuroscience > Development