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

As people age, their episodic memory — the ability to remember past events and experiences — tends to wane, but their ...

“The hallmark of [episodic memories] is that you can describe them to others, but that’s off the table when you’re dealing ...

The hippocampal formation is a group of brain regions, including the hippocampus and some other structures closely connected ...

Yale study shows infants' brains can form memories earlier than thought, challenging long-held beliefs about infantile ...

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

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

Scientists have long thought that babies can’t form experiential memories. Turns out, they can. Adults just can’t remember ...

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time.