Prof Mark L. Howe's HomepageResearch InterestsMy 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 BooksHowe, 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), . |
Grants- 2010 (for 14 months), Project Grant from ESRC.
The role of retrieval processes in false recognition. with Dr. Lauren Knott (PI) and Dr. Steve Dewhurst.
- 2007 (for three years) from ESRC.
The development of children's false memories
- 2004 (for 5 years) from NIMH.
Memory processes in abused and neglected children. with Dante Cicchetti (University of Minnesota) and Sheree Toth (Mt. Hope Family Center, USA).
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