基于大脑机制的亲子教养翻译（十七）

The slower development of the hippocampus has much to do with why early childhood is such a purely emotional stage of social learning and development, a period of life when many experiences are immediate, intense, and only remembered implicitly—that is, indirectly, in terms of unconscious clues such as smells, sounds, sights, and proprioception—rather than explicitly—that is, in terms of conscious and specific contexts often involving time and place and events (what is termed autobiographical memory, one of several kinds of explicit memories).

海马的发育较为缓慢，但是它在童年早期阶段社会学习和发展有很大关系。这个阶段许多经验是直接的，激烈的，但是难以被记忆，即称内隐记忆 - 也就是间接地、无意识的线索，如气味，声音，景象和本体感觉 - 而不是明确地，通常涉及时间，地点和事件的意识和具体语境（称为自传体记忆，是几种明确的记忆之一）。