Abstract
Abstract Due to its incidental nature, the visual paired comparison (VPC) task has been the task of choice to study recognition memory development and its neural substrate in primates. In this chapter, we review a series of studies in adult monkeys that are shading light on the role of the medial temporal lobe structures in object and spatial recognition memory, using variant of the VPC task. Furthermore, studies of the developmental trajectories of these memory processes are also reported as well as the contribution of the hippocampus in the emergence of object and spatial memory. The final section reviews the development of the same memory processes in humans and discusses how the remarkable similarities between maturational processes in monkeys and humans help us infer on the role of the hippocampus in the development of object and spatial memory in humans.
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