It's all about location, location, location: Children's memory for the " where" of personally experienced events

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 510-522

  Bauer, Patricia J ^a   Doydum, Ayzit O ^a,d   Pathman, Thanujeni ^a,e   Larkina, Marina ^a   Güler, O Evren ^b   Burch, Melissa ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Episodic memory; Event memory; Location memory; Relational memory; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84867700381     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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