The Formation and Retrieval of Holistic Event Memories Across Development.

Event memories consist of associations between their constituent elements, leading to their holistic retrieval via the process of pattern completion. This holistic retrieval can occur, under specific conditions, when each within-event association is encoded in a separate temporal context: adults are able to integrate the information into a single coherent representation. In this study, we sought to replicate the holistic retrieval of simultaneously encoded event elements in children, and examine whether children can similarly integrate across separated encoding contexts.

Make or break it: boundary conditions for integrating multiple elements in episodic memory.

Event memories are characterized by the holistic retrieval of their constituent elements. Studies show that memory for individual event elements (e.g.