Abstract
Children are not simply miniature adults. As such, the memory of a child is significantly different from the memory of an adult. Furthermore, the ability to form memories is not innate and instead develops over the first nearly two decades of life. Consequently, memory researchers working in the developmental domain must carefully design studies to probe memory function using age-appropriate paradigms. This is especially true given the growing range of experimental approaches that can be leveraged to understand the neural underpinnings of memory and its development. Techniques such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and high-density electroencephalography (HD-EEG) join workhorse behavioral and neuropsychological methodologies to monitor many aspects of brain function and behavior during memory formation and retrieval.
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