> fabio guillermo rojas wrote: > > It's well documented that long term memory is nil for children less > > than five years of age (doctors call it "pediatric amnesia") and > > is very spotty until about 12. Maybe children can remember strings > > of numbers well in labs, but they can't remember things from a year > > or two ago terribly well.
Bryan D Caplan wrote: > Actually, I was thinking about kids' amazing ability to learn > languages, which involves massive memorization. I'm told there are three kinds of long-term memory -- semantic (`the capital of France is Paris'), episodic (events personally experienced) and procedural (how to do stuff) -- and strength in one does not imply strength in another. Social cooperation depends on episodic memory, language on the other two. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
