Learn how current researchers are developing insights about the components of working memory and what this might mean for our understanding of how we think and learn. (
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/working-memory
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Read this "Harvard University Gazette" article regarding Jerome Kagan's findings that children have great difficulty recalling the past during the first year of life. (
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/11.07/01-memory.html
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Examine the research being conducted at Loyola University Chicago regarding the social and cognitive foundations of memory and narrative development over the preschool and early school years. (
http://www.luc.edu/psychology/research/cms/
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Learn about the "Children's Memory Project" at the University of North Carolina. Children's memory is a fascinating area of study and has important practical and legal implications. (
http://www.unc.edu/depts/childmem/index.html
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Read an article about how parents can facilitate the improvement of their children's memory. (
http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,23-28418,00.html
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