01:830:331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.1: Frontal Lobe, Autobiographical Memory, Childhood Amnesia
27 Mar 2017
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The roots of memory are laid down soon after birth young babies remember events for days or even weeks at a time. Infants rapidly learn that kicking moves the mobile; days later, babies will kick immediately, showing that they remember the connection but more days later, they forget and need a reminder. Rovee-collier"s experiment show that 3 important features of memory exist as early as 2- 3months of age: an event from the past is remembered, over time, the event can no longer be recalled, a cue can serve to dredge up a forgotten memory. Memory is more flexible in older infants and toddlers they are able to remember past events even when the context associated with those events has changed. The brain structures primarily responsible for the initial storage of information, such as the hippocampus, develop during the first year. Structure responsible for retrieving these stored memories (the frontal cortex) develop much later into the second year.
