1st Edition

Remembering and Forgetting Early Childhood

Edited By Qi Wang, Sami Gülgöz Copyright 2021
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together scholarship that contributes diverse and new perspectives on childhood amnesia – the scarcity of memories for very early life events. The topics of the studies reported in the book range from memories of infants and young children for recent and distant life events, to mother–child conversations about memories for extended lifetime periods, and to retrospective... Read more

Introduction: New perspectives on childhood amnesia

Qi Wang & Sami Gülgöz

1. Manipulating the reported age in earliest memories

Ineke Wessel, Theresa Schweig & Rafaële J. C. Huntjens

2. Looking at the past through a telescope: adults postdated their earliest childhood memories

Qi Wang, Carole Peterson, Angel Khuu, Carissa P. Reid, Kayleigh L. Maxwell & Julia M. Vincent

3. Consistency of adults’ earliest memories across two years

Berivan Ece, Burcu Demiray & Sami Gülgöz

4. Thirty-five-month-old children have spontaneous memories despite change of context for retrieval

Trine Sonne, Osman S. Kingo, Dorthe Berntsen & Peter Krøjgaard

5. What happened in kindergarten? Mother-child conversations about life story chapters

Michelle D. Leichtman, Kristina L. Steiner, Kaitlin A. Camilleri, David B. Pillemer & Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen

6. Predictors of age-related and individual variability in autobiographical memory in childhood

Patricia J. Bauer & Marina Larkina

7. Origins of adolescents’ earliest memories

Elaine Reese & Sarah-Jane Robertson

8. Recollection improves with age: children’s and adults’ accounts of their childhood experiences

Karen Tustin & Harlene Hayne

9. The relationship between sociocultural factors and autobiographical memories from childhood: the role of formal schooling

Manuel L. de la Mata, Andrés Santamaría, Eva Mª Trigo, Mercedes Cubero, Samuel Arias-Sánchez, Radka Antalíková, Tia G.B. Hansen & Marcia L. Ruiz

10. Unravelling the nature of early (autobiographical) memory

Mark L. Howe

Biography

Qi Wang is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Her research examines individual and cultural mechanisms underlying autobiographical memory. She is the author of The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture.

Sami Gülgöz is Professor of Psychology at Koç University. His past work includes topics varying from text processing to personality. In the last decade, he has concentrated on memory in everyday life, primarily autobiographical memory.