1-186 - Episodic Prospection Beyond Early Childhood: Insights from Typical and Atypical Development

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Research on the development of episodic prospection has focused largely on the preschool years, providing valuable insight on its emergence and early development. However, given that this ability is thought to be functionally related to episodic memory, which develops considerably during middle and late childhood, there is reason to expect robust change in episodic prospection into adolescence. This international symposium will investigate the development of this ability during middle to late childhood while examining, for the first time, the role of factors that may contribute to changes beyond early childhood, including neurocognitive and socio-cultural factors.

The first paper investigates age-related differences in future orientation from middle childhood into adolescence. Papers 2 and 3 take a neurocognitive approach, examining episodic prospection in typically-developing children compared to children with a history of traumatic brain injury (paper 2) or developmental amnesia (paper 3); results converge on highlighting the role of semantic knowledge and elaboration as bases for episodic prospection and provide insight on its underlying neural substrates. The final paper examines socio-cultural differences in the development of episodic prospection in 7- to 10-year-old European American and Chinese children, suggesting a role for culture in the development of this ability. The Discussion will focus on integrating these findings, which, together, provide strong evidence of developmental changes in episodic prospection beyond early childhood. The Discussion will also underscore that a combination of cognitive, neural, and social factors may contribute to changes in this complex construct, emphasizing the importance of a comprehensive approach to developmental investigations.

Sub Unit

• Cognitive Processes

Chairs

• Christine A Coughlin, University of California, Davis

• Simona Ghetti, Univ of California Davis

Individual Presentations

• The Development of Biases in Future Thinking - Presenting Author: Teresa McCormack, Queen's University, Belfast; Jemma McGourty, Queen's University Belfast

• Recollection of Past and Construction of Future Autobiographical Events in Children and Adolescents with Traumatic Brain Injury - Presenting Author: Suncica Lah, N/A; Chloe Gott, School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Carly Black, School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Michael Gascoigne, School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Adrienne Epps, Paediatric Rehabilitation, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia; Louise Parry, Paediatric Rehabilitation and Department of Psychology, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia

• Mental Time Travel in Patients with Hypoxia-Induced Selective Hippocampal Atrophy and Developmental Memory Disorders - Janine Cooper, University College London; David G. Gadian, University College London Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK; Mortimer Mishkin, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Presenting Author: Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, University College London

• Past and Future Episodic Thinking in Cultural Contexts - Presenting Author: Qi Wang, Cornell University; Jessie Bee Kim Koh, Cornell University; Diana Capous, Cornell University