The Wiley Handbook on the Development of Children's Memory

by Bauer, Patricia; Fivush, Robyn

• ISBN13: 9781118590287
• ISBN10: 1118590287
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2013-09-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The all-embracing Handbook on the Development of Children’s Memory represents the first volume in which critical topics in memory development are covered from multiple perspectives, from infancy through adolescence. Forty-four chapters are written by experienced researchers who have influenced the field.

 

• The first volume in which critical topics in memory development are covered from multiple perspectives, from infancy through adolescence
• Edited by two of the world’s leading experts on the development of memory.
• Discusses the importance of a developmental perspective on the study of memory

• The first ever handbook to bring together the world’s leading academics in one reference guide

 

• Each section has an introduction written by one of the Editors, who have also written an overall introduction that places the work in historical and contemporary contexts in cognitive and developmental psychology

 

Author Biography

Patricia Bauer is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University.  She heads the Memory at Emory Laboratory, and is the author of several books & many journal articles. Her volume Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy & Beyond (2007) was voted book of the year by the Cognitive Development Society.

 

Robyn Fivush is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory University.  She directs the Family Narratives Laboratory at Emory, and, in addition to many journal articles, she has authored and edited nine books, including Autobiographical Memory and the Construction of a Narrative Self (2004).