Learning to remember: The early ontogeny of episodic memory

Highlights • We review literature on the ontogeny of episodic memory in the first postnatal year.• We discuss several extant points of contention.• One of which involves the status of hippocampal function.• We highlight the potential usefulness of MRI in progressing points of debate.

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