Associations between infant brain activity and recall memory

Long-term explicit memory is thought to involve a complex neural circuit including the medial temporal lobe, the medial diencephalon, the prefrontal cortex, and association cortices. When this memory system and associated neural circuitry develops is of great interest to developmental psychologists and developmental cognitive neuroscience researchers. In the present report, we provide evidence of a relation between behavioral and neurophysiological measures of long-term explicit memory in 9-month-old infants. These measures provide converging evidence of the development of long-term explicit memory at least by the end of the first year of life.