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On childhood and memory.

What is it like to be a small child? III

In the last of this series of posts, I want to talk about some contemporary research in developmental psychology which offers clues to the experience of a small child. Last time, I mentioned how the Maurers had made good use of scientific knowledge about infant perception in their imagining of the world of the newborn. Read More

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Charles Fernyhough is a developmental psychologist and the author of A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of his Daughter's Developing Mind.

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