2013
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.854806
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The onset of childhood amnesia in childhood: A prospective investigation of the course and determinants of forgetting of early-life events

Abstract: The present research was an examination of the onset of childhood amnesia and how it relates to maternal narrative style, an important determinant of autobiographical memory development. Children and their mothers discussed unique events when the children were 3 years of age. Different subgroups of children were tested for recall of the events at ages 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 years. At the later session, they were interviewed by an experimenter about the events discussed 2 to 6 years previously with their mothers (ea… Show more

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“…Furthermore, only Fivush and Schwarzmueller (1998) documented the fates of memories over the boundary of childhood amnesia (i.e., beyond age 7 years). In Bauer and Larkina (2013) and Van Abbema and Bauer (2005), we held the age at encoding constant and varied the retention interval, thereby allowing for examination of fates of early memories over time. Specifically, we recorded conversations of dyads of 3-year-old children and their mothers as they discussed a number of events from the recent past.…”
Section: The Vulnerability Of Memory Traces Declines Over Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Furthermore, only Fivush and Schwarzmueller (1998) documented the fates of memories over the boundary of childhood amnesia (i.e., beyond age 7 years). In Bauer and Larkina (2013) and Van Abbema and Bauer (2005), we held the age at encoding constant and varied the retention interval, thereby allowing for examination of fates of early memories over time. Specifically, we recorded conversations of dyads of 3-year-old children and their mothers as they discussed a number of events from the recent past.…”
Section: The Vulnerability Of Memory Traces Declines Over Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, Hamond and Fivush (1991) found that children who experienced a trip to Disneyworld when they were 36 or 48 months of age remembered the event even 18 months later. In Bauer and Larkina (2013), children 3 years of age at the time of events remembered in excess of 60% of them over delays of as many as 3 years. The preschool and early school years also are marked by developments in the ability to locate events in a particular time and place.…”
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“…A detailed episodic representation will have a higher probability of being recalled, especially when it is connected to various bits of factual knowledge (i.e., semantic memory), simply because multiple types of cues will match. However, compared to later memories, early memories are impoverished in that they contain fewer narrative categories (e.g., who, where; Bauer & Larkina, 2014;West & Bauer, 1999) and that they have fewer connections with factual knowledge (Howe, 2013;Pillemer, 1998). In addition, factual knowledge may be absent or organised differently in children than adults (Conway, 2005;Howe, 2013), resulting in reduced ways of accessing early representations with further development.…”
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“…That does not mean that all early experiences could be accessed if only the right trigger were available. Early, sketchy memories are thought to have a high probability of getting lost because retrieval opportunities are limited due to a lack of narrative organisation (e.g., Bauer, 2014;Bauer & Larkina, 2014).…”
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“…For example, 4- to 5-year-olds retain unique factual information acquired in a classroom setting over a 1-week period (Bemis, Leichtman, & Pillemer, 2013). Further, 4-year-old children retain episodic memories for events that occurred during a prior week (Bauer et al, in press; Scarf et al, 2013), month (Bauer, Larkina, & Doydum, 2012), and year (e.g., Bauer & Larkina, 2014). Yet, there are reasons to believe that 4-year-olds’ retention will not equal that of 6-year-olds’.…”
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