“The ‘Memory System’ of Prelinguistic Infants”, 1990 (; backlinks):
Reviews research showing that infants’ memories consist of collections or clusters of attributes that represent different aspects of an event and that very young infants’ memories are highly specific with regard to both the nominal status and the context or environmental surround in which a training episode occurs.
Training and testing procedures used in this research include retention measures, a simple forgetting paradigm, and a reactivation paradigm.
Findings: question the utility of invoking multiple memory systems in pre-linguistic infants as long as a single memory system or processing mechanism can account for existing data.