Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 8, Pages 676-686Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.05.004
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) [WE 4269/5-1]
- Jacobs Foundation
- Max Planck Society
- National Institutes of Health [F31HD090872]
- National Science Foundation [SBE-1041707]
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During early ontogeny, the rapid and cumulative acquisition of world knowledge contrasts with slower improvements in the ability to lay down detailed and long-lasting episodic memories. This emphasis on generalization at the expense of specificity persists well into middle childhood and possibly into adolescence. During this period, recognizing regularities, forming stable representations of recurring episodes, predicting the structure of future events, and building up semantic knowledge may be prioritized over remembering specific episodes. We highlight recent behavioral and neuroimaging evidence suggesting that maturational differences among subfields within the hippocampus contribute to the developmental lead-lag relation between generalization and specificity, and lay out future research directions.
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