ABSTRACT
Both very young and very old people are defective in memory, the former because of growth, the latter owing to decay. Though how we age is part of developmental psychology, I look here at how we start to remember. It used to be assumed that infant brains were far too immature to remember anything at all. This was Piaget’s view, though he put it logically as well as biologically: the newborn could recall nothing because he lacked the cognitive structures required.
