Nature of early memory
Subtitle: an adaptive theory of the genesis and development of memory
By: by Mark L. Howe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780195381412
Subjects: Long-term memory in children; Long-term memory in adolescence; Memory
Description: Howe presents an exegesis of the research and theory concerning the emergence and development of long-term memory from birth through adolescence. The book also contains a presentation of Howe's theory that memory is an adaptive mechanism that guides the development and survival of the organism in a changing environment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The significance and earliest signs of early memory; title: On the importance of studying early memory; title: Studying memory in nonverbal human organisms; title: Neurobiological development and the beginnings of early memory; title: Infantile amnesia, autobiographical memory, and the remembering self; title: Infantile amnesia in human and nonhuman animals; title: The onset and early development of autobiographical remembering; title: Consciousness and early memory development; title: The role of distinctiveness, emotion, stress, and trauma in memory development; title: Distinctiveness and emotion in early memory development; title: Chronic stress and maltreatment in early memory development; title: Children's false memory illusions; title: The adaptive nature of memory and its development; title: Evolutionary and adaptive significance of the genesis and early development of memory.