The Wiley Handbook on the Development of Children’s Memory

In recent years there has been an explosion of research into childhood cognitive development. Experiments with neonates (which must have involved some peculiar scenes in the maternity ward) have shown that even very young children, far from being the ‘tabulae rasa’ suggested by Locke, have strong and distinctive individual mental processes. This rapid growth in research can be well illustrated by comparing the two editions of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development (Goswami (2011), (2nd ed.), which I had the pleasure of reviewing for Reference Reviews (RR 2003/56 and RR 2011/154). In the eight years between...