Short- and Long-Term Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood

by Oakes, Lisa M.; Bauer, Patricia J.

• ISBN13: 9780195182293
• ISBN10: 0195182294
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Despite early speculations that young infants are unable to form memories, since the 1950s developmental scientists have documented amazing memory abilities in infancy and explored how these abilities develop. This research on memory development in infancy and early childhood has recentlymoved in exciting new directions. Extensions of work on memory systems in adults and the use of behavioral and neuroscience methods to study early developing memory abilities have lead to an explosion of ideas about the neural underpinnings of memory, its development, and the mechanisms involved inthese developmental changes. This book focuses on recent empirical and theoretical advances in the study of memory development in infancy and early childhood and on mechanisms of developmental change. Its chapters allow readers to compare and contrast contemporary views of memory development, andgain an understanding of what we do and do not yet know about how memory develops in early childhood.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Short-Term or Working Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood
Working Memory in Infants and Toddlers	p. 3
Individual Differences in the Development of Working Memory During Infancy	p. 27
Continuity of Format and Computation in Short-Term Memory Development	p. 51
The Development of Visual Short-Term Memory in Infancy	p. 75
Things to Remember: Limits, Codes, and the Development of Object Working Memory in the First Year	p. 103
What Infants Can Tell Us About Working Memory Development	p. 126
Long-Term Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood
Developmental Aspects of Visual Recognition Memory in Infancy	p. 153
Neural Mechanisms of Attention and Memory in Preferential Looking Tasks	p. 179
Infant Memory Development: New Questions, New Answers	p. 209
In the Language of Multiple Memory Systems: Defining and Describing Developments in Long-Term Declarative Memory	p. 240
How Do We Remember? Let Me Count the Ways	p. 271
To Have and Have Not: What Do We Mean When We Talk About Long-Term Memory Development?	p. 291
Author Index	p. 315
Subject Index	p. 329
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