ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2018
Hippocampal Maturation Drives Memory from Generalization to Specificity.
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- Mnemonic Discrimination Performance in Anxiety and Depression: A Systematic Review.Depression and anxiety · 2026Pooled it
- Age-related differences in hippocampal subfield volumes across the human lifespan: A meta-analysis.Hippocampus · 2023Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of the relation between hippocampal volume and memory ability in typically developing children and adolescents.Hippocampus · 2022Pooled it
- Sleep forms flexible context representations in toddlers.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Neural correlates of learning speed reveal developmental differences in memory.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Surface expansion regionalization of the hippocampus in early brain development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Developmental emergence of sparse and structured synaptic connectivity in the hippocampal CA3 memory circuit.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Interhemispheric CA1 projections to the subiculum support spatial cognition and are affected in a mouse model of the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Neural Representations of Reward-Related Memories Shift across Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Distinct CA1 inputs support shifts in neural dimensionality and memory resolution.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Neural correlates and reinstatement of recent and remote memory in children and young adults.eLife · 2025Article
- Anxiety severity in peri-adolescents is associated with greater generalization of negative memories following a period of sleep relative to wake.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Spontaneous reinstatement of episodic memories in the developing human brain.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A little imprecision goes a long way in launching memory development.Child development perspectives · 2025Article
- A sensitive period for the development of episodic-like memory in mice.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Reinforcement learning increasingly relates to memory specificity from childhood to adulthood.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Differentiation of Related Events in Hippocampus Supports Memory Reinstatement in Development.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Pattern separation and pattern completion in early childhood.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Age-related differences in the relationship between confidence and false memory in a mnemonic discrimination task.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Reinstatement and transformation of memory traces for recognition.Science advances · 2025Article
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Abstract
During early ontogeny, the rapid and cumulative acquisition of world knowledge contrasts with slower improvements in the ability to lay down detailed and long-lasting episodic memories. This emphasis on generalization at the expense of specificity persists well into middle childhood and possibly into adolescence. During this period, recognizing regularities, forming stable representations of recurring episodes, predicting the structure of future events, and building up semantic knowledge may be prioritized over remembering specific episodes. We highlight recent behavioral and neuroimaging evidence suggesting that maturational differences among subfields within the hippocampus contribute to the developmental lead-lag relation between generalization and specificity, and lay out future research directions.
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