Memory After Class: How a Child's Brain Locks In Episodes
The classroom goes quiet after the lesson, but the echo still rings in the child's head: faces, objects, places. It is this echo, not the lesson itself, that decides what will stay in memory. For the first time, researchers have caught it in children aged 6 to 17.
Children memorized scenes inside an MRI scanner: they were shown a room, then an object or a face in a particular spot.