Mechanisms of change: exploring not only when and what, but also how declarative memory develops
✍ Scribed by Jenny Richmond; Tracy DeBoer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 52 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-7227
- DOI
- 10.1002/icd.437
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✦ Synopsis
Age-related changes in representational flexibility are a characteristic feature of declarative memory development. The authors suggest that a qualitative shift in the nature of infants' memory representations accounts for increasing memory flexibility with age. We will argue that a comprehensive theory of declarative memory development must (1) account for the effect of experience on flexibility, (2) be empirically separable from more parsimonious explanations, and (3) propose a mechanism by which the transition takes place. We will argue that a converging-methods approach is necessary to understand not only when and what develops in declarative memory, but also how developmental change occurs.