• DOI:10.1080/09658210802077082
Corpus ID: 205665179

Defining the boundary of childhood amnesia

@article{Davis2008DefiningTB,
  title={Defining the boundary of childhood amnesia},
  author={Nicola Davis and J. Gross and H. Hayne},
  journal={Memory},
  year={2008},
  volume={16},
  pages={465 - 474}
}

• Nicola Davis, J. Gross, H. Hayne
• Published 2008
• Psychology, Medicine
• Memory

When adults are asked to recall their earliest autobiographical memories most can recall nothing about their infancy and early childhood, a phenomenon commonly referred to as childhood amnesia. There is general consensus regarding the existence of childhood amnesia, but there remains considerable debate over its boundary. Most researchers have argued that the boundary of childhood amnesia occurs between the ages of 3 and 4 years, but in 1993 Usher and Neisser published a highly influential… Expand

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