Description
This all-embracing Handbook on the Development of Children’s Memory represents the first place 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.
- 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
2 Volumes
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Preface xi
Patricia J. Bauer and Robyn Fivush
1 The Development of Memory: Multiple Levels and Perspectives 1
Patricia J. Bauer and Robyn Fivush
Section I History, Theories, and Methods of the Development of Memory 15
Robyn Fivush
2 The History of Memory Development Research: Remembering Our Roots 19
Patricia H. Miller
3 The Coaction of Theory and Methods in the Study of the Development of Memory 41
Lynne Baker-Ward and Peter A. Ornstein
4 The Development of Memory from a Piagetian Perspective 65
Lynn S. Liben and Caitlin R. Bowman
5 Sociocultural Theories of Memory Development 87
Katherine Nelson
6 The Development of Memory from a Neurocognitive and
Comparative Perspective 109
Jocelyne Bachevalier
7 Memory Development in Evolutionary Perspective 126
David F. Bjorklund and Patrick Douglas Sellers II
Section II Mnemonic Processes 151
Patricia J. Bauer
8 Short-term Memory in Infancy 157
Lisa M. Oakes and Steven J. Luck
9 Methodological Challenges in the Study of Short-term Working
Memory in Infants 181
J. Steven Reznick
10 Short-term and Working Memory in Childhood 202
Nelson Cowan
11 Long-term Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood 230
Angela F. Lukowski and Patricia J. Bauer
12 Extending the Life of a Memory: Effects of Reminders on Children’s
Long-term Event Memory 255
Judith A. Hudson and Azriel Grysman
13 Binding Together the Elements of Episodes: Relational Memory and the
Developmental Trajectory of the Hippocampus 285
Ingrid R. Olson and Nora S. Newcombe
14 The Development of Recollection and Familiarity during Childhood:
Insight from Studies of Behavior and Brain 309
Simona Ghetti and Joshua K. Lee
15 Implicit Memory 336
Marianne E. Lloyd and Jeremy K. Miller
Section III Mnemonic Contents 361
Patricia J. Bauer
16 Remembering Where: The Origins and Early Development of Spatial Memory 367
Stella F. Lourenco and Andrea Frick
17 The Development of Memory for the Times of Past Events 394
William J. Friedman
18 Locating Events in Personal Time: Time in Autobiography 408
Thanujeni Pathman and Peggy L. St. Jacques
19 Children’s Memory for Source 427
Mary Ann Foley
20 From Specificity to Flexibility: Early Developmental Changes in
Memory Generalization 453
Rachel Barr and Natalie Brito
21 Dual Processes in Memory Development: Fuzzy-Trace Theory 480
Charles J. Brainerd and Valerie F. Reyna
