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Examining Recall Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood Using the Elicited Imitation Paradigm
Published on: April 28, 2016
Development of extended memory
1Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 50 Riverside Drive #4B, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. knelson@gc.cuny.edu
Abstract:
Memory development is described in terms of a bio-social-cultural theory of human cognition. The development from a private unshareable system of basic memory in infancy and very early childhood is framed within an experiential perspective wherein all memory is derived from experience. It is the nature of changing experience, the result of both biological and social-cultural conditions that eventuates in a changed memory system that enables long-term retention of episodic memories, thus establishing the autobiographical memory system. The sequence of developments that interact to bring this about, many dependent on the acquisition of language, are discussed.
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