Developmental Changes in Memory-Related Linguistic Skills and Their Relationship to Episodic Recall in Children.

ABSTRACT: This longitudinal study of nine children examined two issues concerning infantile amnesia: the time at which memories for events experienced before the age of 3-4 years disappear from consciousness and whether this timing of memory loss is related to the development of specific aspects of episodic and autobiographical memory. This study followed children from infancy to early childhood and examined the central role of three verbal-cognitive milestones related to autobiographical memory: the age at which children begin to report autobiographical memories using the past tense (Milestone 1); the age at which they begin to verbally acknowledge past events (Milestone 2); and the age at which they begin to spontaneously use memory-related verbs (Milestone 3). As expected, memories of events that

SUBMITTER: Uehara I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4558057 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature