The ways that memory functions develop over ontogeny are important for understanding the emergence of the self, identity, and the co-creation of the self. Memory is such a massive rabbit hole because it pulls in every domain of psychology, biology, and selfhood (to name just a few broad categories) and is very important to consider the intersections of ontogenetic and phylogenetic processes as they relate to memory.
Starting with the broad brushes of developmental time:
Episodic memory doesn't develop wholly until 4.5 years old, which has massive implications of how we think about individual identity and self issues
Autobiographical reasoning grows across age and gets super interesting as we age well into adulthood
[12:58 p.m., 2021-02-05] Bryan Kam: Add them to the wiki somewhere... co-creation of the self?
[12:58 p.m., 2021-02-05] Isabel: 3. Strategic forgetting vs / and attention selection create either coherent or divergent selves
[12:58 p.m., 2021-02-05] Isabel: Yes
[1:00 p.m., 2021-02-05] Isabel: 4. All of these process are largely considered individual but I think we could go interesting places thinking about their co-creation over evo time, cultural constraints/time, and then from birth to adulthood