Mark Howe, Ph.D.

Mark Howe is currently a psychology professor at Lancaster University in the UK. He was previously at Lakehead University located in Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada, where his relative proximity to professor Mary Courage at  Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada resulted in numerous collaborations. His general research interest focuses on memory in infants. His most cited works appear to be those which involve infantile amnesia and forgetting. More recently he has come to focus on older children and how stress and trauma  affect their memory capabilities.

In 2004 professor Howe was awarded a $1.54 million grant over five years from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) titled "Memory Processes in Abused and Neglected Children". For the grant he is collaborating with Dante Cicchetti of the University of Minnesota and Sheree Toth at the Mount Hope Family Center in Rochester, NY. According to Professor Howe the purpose of the grant is to "assess whether experiences of child maltreatment affect the operation of memory in abused and neglected children. These findings will not only have important theoretical implications but will also play a key role in forensic settings, have consequences for the clinical treatment of these children, and inform social policy regarding these children. This project will have significant implications for society regarding planning for the needs of children who have been physically abused, sexually abused, or neglected.” (Quoted from Lakhead University's Online Agora in November, 2004).

Most cited article (135 citations):

Howe, ML, Courage, ML. (1993). On Resolving the Enigma of Infantile Amnesia. Psychological Bulletin. 113  (2), 305-326.