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Research Interests

My research interests centre on structural (representational) and processing (encoding, storage, and retrieval) components involved in the development of memory and long-term retention.

Current work includes studies of:

• developmental changes and invariances in memory and forgetting from infancy to adulthood
• infantile amnesia and the development of autobiographical memory
• children's memory for distinctive (e.g., traumatic) events
• changes in basic memory development due to childhood stress and maltreatment
• the use of heart rate variability (and other neurophysiological measures) to investigate neurological and behavioral indices of long-term memory
• dynamic modeling of cognitive development, and
• working memory analyses of the development of reasoning skills.

Recent Books

Howe, M. L. (2011). The Nature of Early Memory: An Adaptive Theory of the Genesis and Development of Memory. New York: Oxford University Press.

Howe, M. L., Goodman, G. S., & Cichetti, D. (Eds.) (2008). Stress, Trauma, and Children's Memory Development: Neurobiological, Cognitive, Clinical, and Legal Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.

Recent Publications (2005 - present)

Publications

	Howe, M. L. (forthcoming). The co-emergence of the self and autobiographical memory: An adaptive view of early memory. Chapter in : P. J. Bauer & R. Fivush (Eds.), Handbook on the Development of Children's Memory. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. .
	Howe, M. L. (in press). Feats of early memory: Courtroom tales of what adults claim to remember about early childhood events. Chapter in : In R. E. Holliday and T. A. Marche (Eds.), Child Forensic Psychology. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. .
	Knott, L. M., Dewhurst, S. A., & Howe, M. L. (in press). What factors underlie associative and categorical memory illusions? The roles of backward associative strength and inter-item connectivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, , .
	Otgaar, H., Peters, M., & Howe, M. L. (in press). Dividing attention lowers children's but increases adults' false memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, , .
	Dewhurst, S. A., Howe, M. L., Berry, D. M., & Knott, L. M. (2012). Test-induced priming increases false recognition in older but not younger children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 101-107.
	Dewhurst, S. A., Knott, L. M., & Howe, M. L. (2011). Test-induced priming impairs source monitoring accuracy in the DRM procedure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 1001-1007.
	Howe, M. L. (2011). The adaptive nature of memory and its illusions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 312-315.
	Howe, M. L., & Malone, C. (2011). Mood-congruent true and false memory: Effects of depression. Memory, 19, 192-201.
	Howe, M. L., & Wilkinson, S. (2011). Using story contexts to bias children's true and false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 77-95.
	Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R., Charlesworth, M., & Knott, L. (2011). A brighter side to memory illusions: False memories prime children's and adults' insight-based problem solving. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 383-393.
	Howe, M. L., Toth, S. L., & Cicchetti, D. (2011). Can maltreated children inhibit true and false memories for emotional information? Child Development, 82, 967-981.
	Knott, L. M., Howe, M. L., Wimmer, M. C., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2011). The development of automatic and controlled inhibitory retrieval processes in true and false recall. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 91-108.
	Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., Howe, M. L., & Toth, S. L. (2010). The effects of maltreatment and neuroendocrine regulation on memory performance. Child Development, 81, 1504-1519.
	Courage, M. L., & Howe, M. L. (2010). Autobiographical memory: Individual differences and developmental course. Chapter in : In A. Gruszka, G. Matthews, & B. Szymura (Eds.), Handbook of individual differences in cognition: Attention, memory, and cognitive control (pp. 403-417). New York: Springer-Verlag . .
	Courage, M. L., & Howe, M. L. (Eds). (2010). Television and toddlers: The medium, the message, and their impact on early cognitive development. Developmental Review (Special June Issue) (30, No. 2).
	Courage, M. L., Howe, M. L. et al. (2010). Individual differences in working memory and higher-ordered processing: The commentaries. Chapter in : In A. Gruszka, G. Matthews, & B. Szymura (Eds.), Handbook of individual differences in cognition: Attention, memory, and cognitive control (pp. 419-436). New York: Springer-Verlag . .
	Courage, M.L., & Howe, M. L. (2010). To watch or not to watch: Infants and toddlers in a brave new electronic world. Developmental Review, 30, 101-115.
	Howe, M. L., & Derbish, M. H. (2010). On the susceptibility of adaptive memory to false memory illusions. Cognition, 115, 252-267.
	Howe, M. L., Candel, I., Otgaar, H., Malone, C., & Wimmer, M. C. (2010). Valence and the development of immediate and long-term false memory illusions. Memory, 18, 58-75.
	Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R., Dewhurst, S. A., & Ball, L. J. (2010). Can false memories prime problem solutions? Cognition, 117, 176-181.
	Wimmer, M. C., & Howe, M. L. (2010). Are children's memory illusions created differently than adults'? Evidence from levels-of-processing and divided attention paradigms. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107, 31-49.
	Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Howe, M. L. (2009). Trichotomous processes in early memory development, aging, and neurocognitive impairment: A unified theory. Psychological Review, 116, 783-832.
	Howe, M. L., Courage, M. L., & Rooksby, M. (2009). The genesis and development of autobiographical memory. Chapter in M. L. Courage and N. Cowan (Eds.): The development of memory in infancy and childhood (pp. 177-196). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
	Howe, M. L., Wimmer, M. C., & Blease, K. (2009). The role of associative strength in children's false memory illusions. Memory, 17, 8-16.
	Howe, M. L., Wimmer, M. C., Gagnon, N., & Plumpton, S. (2009). An associative-activation theory of children's and adults' memory illusions. Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 229-251.
	Marche, T. A., Howe, M. L., Lane, D. G., Owre, K. P., & Briere, J. L. (2009). Invariance of cognitive triage in the development of recall in adulthood. Memory, 17, 518-527.
	Wimmer, M. C., & Howe, M. L. (2009). The development of automatic associative processes and children's false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 447-465.
	Brainerd, C. J., Yang, C., Reyna, V. F., Howe, M. L., & Mills, B. A. (2008). Semantic processing in "associative" false memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1035-1053.
	Howe, M. L. (2008). The nature of infantile amnesia. Chapter in : R. Menzel (Ed.), Learning theory and behavior (pp. 287-297). Vol. 1 of Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference, 4 vols. (J. Byrne, Editor). Oxford: Elsevier.
	Howe, M. L. (2008). Visual distinctiveness and the development of children's false memories. Child Development, 79, 65-79.
	Howe, M. L. (2008). What is false memory development the development of? Comment on Brainerd, Reyna, and Ceci (2008). Psychological Bulletin, 134, 768-772.
	Howe, M. L., Gagnon, N., & Thouas, L. (2008). Development of false memories in bilingual children and adults. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 669-681.
	Howe, M. L., Goodman, G. S., & Cicchetti, D. (2008). Prologue: Turning science into practice. Chapter in Howe, M. L., Goodman, G. S., & Cicchetti, D. (Eds.): Stress, trauma, and children's memory development: Neurobiological, cognitive, clinical and legal perspectives (pp. 1-8). New York: Oxford University Press.
	Howe, M. L., Goodman, G. S., & Cicchetti, D. (Eds.). (2008). Stress, trauma, and children's memory development: Neurobiological, cognitive, clinical and legal perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.
	Howe, M. L. (2007). Children's emotional false memories. Psychological Science, 18, 856-860.
	Howe, M. L. (2006). Distinctiveness effects in children's memory. Chapter in Hunt, R. R., & Worthen, J. (Eds.): Distinctiveness and human memory (pp. 237-257). New York: Oxford University Press.
	Howe, M. L. (2006). Developmental invariance in distinctiveness effects in memory. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1193-1205.
	Howe, M. L. (2006). Developmentally invariant dissociations in children's true and false memories: Not all relatedness is created equal. Child Development, 77, 1112-1123.
	Howe, M. L., Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. (2006). Children's basic memory processes, stress, and maltreatment. Development and Psychopathology, 18, 759-769.
	Howe, M. L., Toth, S., & Cicchetti, D. (2006). Memory and developmental psychopathology. Chapter in Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. (Eds.): Developmental psychopathology (2nd Edition). Volume 2: Developmental Neuroscience (pp. 629-655). New York: Wiley.
	Howe, M. L. (2005). Children (but not adults) can inhibit false memories. Psychological Science, 16, 927-931.
	Howe, M. L., & Lewis, M. D. (2005). The importance of dynamic systems approaches for understanding development. Developmental Review, 25, 247-251.
	Howe, M. L., & Lewis, M. D. (2005). Development as self-organization: New approaches to the psychology and neurobiology of development [Special Issue]. Developmental Review, 25(3/4), .