Howe M L, Courage M L
Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada.
Psychol Bull. 1993 Mar;113(2):305-26. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.113.2.305.
Historical and current theories of infantile amnesia are examined. To evaluate the viability of these theories, as well as the phenomenon of infantile amnesia itself, a review of memory development from birth through the preschool years is provided, including an overview of relevant perceptual and neurological maturation. In the context of this review, extant theories of infantile amnesia are shown to falter, and it is concluded that infantile amnesia is a chimera of a previously unexplored relationship between the development of a cognitive sense of self and the personalization of event memory. This hypothesis is examined in detail and discussed in the context of related developments in language and social cognition.
本文考察了关于婴儿期遗忘症的历史和当前理论。为了评估这些理论的可行性以及婴儿期遗忘症现象本身，本文回顾了从出生到学前阶段的记忆发展，包括相关感知和神经成熟的概述。在这一回顾的背景下，现有的婴儿期遗忘症理论显得站不住脚，得出的结论是，婴儿期遗忘症是自我认知感发展与事件记忆个性化之间一种此前未被探索的关系的幻想。这一假设将在语言和社会认知的相关发展背景下进行详细考察和讨论。
