Short-and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood : taking the first steps toward remembering / edited by Lisa M. Oakes, Patricia J. Bauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oakes, Lisa M., 1963-

Bauer, Patricia J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory in infants.

Memory in children.

Short-term memory.

Physical Description:

xix, 337 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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 recently moved 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 in these 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, and gain an understanding of what we do and do not yet know about how memory develops in early childhood.

Contents:

Part I: Short-term or working memory in infancy and early childhood

Working memory in infants and toddlers / J. Steven Reznick

Individual differences in the development of working memory during infancy / Martha Ann Bell and Katherine C. Morasch

Continuity of format and computation in short-term memory development / Lisa Feigenson

The development of visual short-term memory in infancy / Lisa M. Oakes, Shannon Ross-Sheehy, and Steven J. Luck

Commentary : things to remember : limits, codes, and the development of object working memory in the first year / Alan Leslie and Zsuzsa Kaldy

Commentary : what can infants tell us about working memory development? / Nelson Cowan

Part II: Long-term memory in infancy and early childhood

Developmental aspects of visual recognition memory in infancy / Susan A. Rose, Judith F. Feldman, and Jeffery J. Jankowski

Neural mechanisms of attention and memory in preferential-looking tasks / Kelly A. Snyder

Infant memory development: new questions, new answers / Darlene Hayne

In the language of multiple memory systems, defining and describing developments in long-term explicit memory / Patricia J. Bauer, Tracy DeBoer, and Angela F. Lukowski

Commentary : how do we remember? let me count the ways / Jean M. Mandler

Commentary : to have and have not : what do we mean when we talk about long-term memory development? / Nora S. Newcombe and Stacie L. Kovacs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780195182293

0195182294

OCLC:

70265582

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