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Development of allocentric spatial memory abilities in children from 18 months to 5 years of age

Ribordy, Farfalla ; Jabès, Adeline ; Banta Lavenex, Pamela A. ; Lavenex, Pierre

In: Cognitive Psychology, 2013, vol. 66, no. 1, p. 1–29

Episodic memories for autobiographical events that happen in unique spatiotemporal contexts are central to defining who we are. Yet, before 2 years of age, children are unable to form or store episodic memories for recall later in life, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. Here, we studied the development of allocentric spatial memory, a fundamental component of episodic memory, in two...