Memory and temporal perspective: The role of temporal frameworks in memory development

Author(s): Hoerl, C.

Journal/Book: Develop Rev. 1999; 19: 525 B St, Ste 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA. Academic Press Inc. 154-182.

Abstract: An account of the development of temporal understanding is proposed which links such understanding with the development of episodic memory. We distinguish between different ways of representing time in terms of the kinds of temporal frameworks they involve. Distinctions are made between frameworks that are perspectival or nonperspectival and those that represent recurrent sequences or particular times. Even primitive temporal understanding integrates both perspectival and nonperspectival components. However, since early frameworks are event-based and localized, they are not yet sufficient for episodic memory in that they do not enable the child to think of events as having occurred at particular points in time. We describe the emergence of new kinds of frameworks in terms of the development of temporal decentering. Two levels of temporal decentering are distinguished, with the higher level involving an appreciation of how event representations depend on one's temporal perspective.

Note: Article McCormack T, Univ Warwick, Dept Psychol, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, ENGLAND

Keyword(s): LONG-TERM-MEMORY; EPISODIC MEMORY; CHILD LANGUAGE; AUTONOETIC CONSCIOUSNESS; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; EVENT REPRESENTATIONS; PAST EVENTS; TIME; AMNESIA; RECALL

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