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A Functional and Cognitive Analysis of Infant Long-Term Retention

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Development of Long-Term Retention

Abstract

It is widely thought that the brain of the young infant is not sufficiently developed to store and maintain memories over the long term. The hippocampus, for example, which plays a major role in memory storage and retrieval in adults, is believed to be incompletely functional until the eighth or ninth postnatal month (Bachvalier & Mishkin, 1984; Nadel, Willner, & Kurz, 1985; Nadel & Zola-Morgan, 1984; Schacter & Moscovitch, 1984). Cited in support of this belief is the large body of data that has been gathered over the last two decades via procedures that exploit the young infant’s robust visual response to novel stimuli. This research has consistently obtained evidence of retention on the order of a few seconds or minutes at most (Fagan, 1984; Olson & Strauss, 1984; Sherman, 1985; Werner & Perlmutter, 1979; but see Fagan, 1973).

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Rovee-Collier, C., Shyi, CW.G. (1992). A Functional and Cognitive Analysis of Infant Long-Term Retention. In: Howe, M.L., Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F. (eds) Development of Long-Term Retention. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2868-4_1

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