New research is challenging longstanding beliefs about why we don't retain the memories we form in early life.

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

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

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 ...

New research challenges the idea that infants cannot form memories, showing that babies as young as 12 months old can encode ...

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

Unlike episodic memory, which reproduces the subjective impressions of past experiences, semantic memory contains information that is context-free—not grounded in a particular time and place. A ...

A new study indicates that memories of baby experiences might remain, lurking in the deepest recesses of the mind, and adults ...

Yale researchers have shed new light on what was once thought to be 'infantile amnesia', suggesting instead it may be memory retrieval to blame.

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