Childhood Memories

Abstract

During infancy and early childhood, what we encode and remember is stored, retained, and retrieved, largely without the benefit of language, but during the rest of our lives, our memories are established, maintained, and expressed using our extensive language networks. In this article, we will introduce a few experimental procedures that can be used to study the transition between nonverbal and verbal memory processing during early childhood and discuss the long-term fate of early childhood memories.