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(2015) Memory development from early childhood through emerging adulthood, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter summarizes major historical trends in research on memory development. It shows that this research paradigm goes back to the beginning of the experimental study of memory near the end of the nineteenth century. Most of the early research was carried out in Western Europe and included both experimental studies on the development of memory functions and more applied research on children's eyewitness testimony. Later on, Russian research on voluntary and involuntary memory and its development became more popular, dominating the field until the early 1960s. The transition to the modern era was observed from the mid-1960s on and stimulated by the "cognitive revolution" that influenced (developmental) experimental research in the USA and Europe.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09611-7_2
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Schneider, W. (2015). A brief history of memory development research, in Memory development from early childhood through emerging adulthood, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 9-23.
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