ABSTRACT
Events are central to human development. Through the regularity of actions, infants begin to understand their world. Early social and communication skills emerge through children's involvement in familiar, predictable action sequences, and later narrative skills are formed from the telling and retelling of events. These events experienced by children become the basis of their self-knowledge. The study of event memories is important to psychologists for other reasons, as well. Understanding children's event memory touches on questions about the sources of infantile amnesia and about the feasibility of children as expert witnesses. For all these reasons, the study of child development is also the study of children's ability to remember, retell, and reproduce events.
