Why don’t we remember being a baby? New clues in memory mystery.
“The hallmark of [episodic memories] is that you can describe them to others, but that’s off the table when you’re dealing with pre-verbal infants,” Nick Turk-Browne, a psychology professor, director of the Yale Wu Tsai Institute, and study senior author said in an accompanying statement.
You can’t remember being a baby for a reason, new study finds
Babies encode memories, but they’re unable to recall them later in life, a new study shows. This finding offers insight into the learning and recall process.
Why don't we remember being a baby? New study provides clues
Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don't hold onto these experiences because the part of the brain responsible for saving memories -- the hippocampus -- is still developing well into adolescence and just can't encode memories in our earliest years.
No Babyhood Memories? Study Provides Clues Why
A new study indicates that memories of baby experiences might remain, lurking in the deepest recesses of the mind, and adults simply aren’t capable of accessing them. Researchers found that infants do indeed form memories of specific events,
Babies do make memories — so why can’t we recall our earliest years?
MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults.
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