LONG-TERM-MEMORY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN

The relatively recent development of research on memory has considerab ly improved knowledge on the subject. The cognitive approach allowed t o consider memory as a multiform phenomenon, implicating separate proc esses and based on independent systems. Memory presently appears as an active process, beginning to get organized as soon as the first inter actions between child and environment. Recent research datas show that infants memory seems to present specific characteristics, different f rom those of older subjects. This is a further argument to the theory of independent mnemonic systems, growing at different periods of devel opment.