Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period—a ...

Giving your child a little confidence boost when it comes to taking their first steps never hurts. Here are the best activity ...

Babies encode memories, but they’re unable to recall them later in life, a new study shows. This finding offers insight into ...

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by a simple question: Why can't you remember being a baby? Even though infants ...

Mice are one of the species that we know experience infantile amnesia. And, thanks to over a century of research on mice, we have some sophisticated genetic tools that allow us to explore what's ...

Why don’t we remember specific events during those crucial first few years, when our brains worked overtime to learn so much?

MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults.

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

Infantile amnesia, as the phenomenon of forgetting life before the age of three or four is technically known, is a difficult ...

Researchers developed a wearable jumpsuit with sensors that can objectively measure an infant’s gross motor development and, ...