When asked to recall their earliest personal memories, most children and adults have virtually no recollection of their infancy or early childhood. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as childhood amnesia. The fate of our earliest memories has puzzled psychologists for over 50 years, particularly in light of the importance of early experience in human development. Empirical research has sho...

Research on the development of metamemory has focused primarily on children's understanding of the variables that influence how likely a person is to remember something. But metamemory also involves an understanding of why people occasionally misremember things. In this study, 5- and 6-year-olds (N = 38) were asked to decide whether another child's mistakes in a memory game were due to false me...

When your parent picks you up from school, how do know which car is theirs? You probably “just know,” even without effortfully trying to memorize the brand, type, or color of car. Although we often think memory in terms intentionally studying for tests, many memories are formed accidentally, learn something. But detailed these accidental memories? Do pieces information remain, if feel like have...

Can simple motor actions affect how efficiently people retrieve emotional memories, and influence what they choose to remember? In Experiment 1, participants were prompted to retell autobiographical memories with either positive or negative valence, while moving marbles either upward or downward. They retrieved memories faster when the direction of movement was congruent with the valence of the...

The first years of life are characterized by an absence or paucity memories, a condition known as infantile amnesia (IA). This study examines the distribution early memory recall young adults, considering distinction between (0–3) and second (4–6) epoch IA. We used five categories to classify memories: Perceptual-Visual Fragment, General Semantic Memory, Episodic Repeated Episode, Single Episod...

Three new cases in Sri Lanka of children who claim to remember previous lives were identified before the statements made by the children subjects of the cases had been verified. The authors made a written record of what the child said and then located a family corresponding to the child's statements. Although none of the children stated the name of the deceased person whose life the child seeme...

This is the second publication in Robin Blackburn’s study of the rise and fall of New World slavery, although it is first in terms of chronology, covering the years from 1492 to 1800. The previous volume, published in 1988, was entitled The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848, and dealt with the ending of slavery in the British and French colonies, and the related changes in the other rema...

Aging is associated with higher propensity to false memories and decreased retrieval of previously studied items. When young adults (YA) perform on a lateralized version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) is more sensitive than the left (LH) to false memories, suggesting hemispheric imbalance in the cerebral mechanisms supporting semantic and epis...