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 ...

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

Although memories seem to be a solid, straightforward sum of who people are, strong evidence suggests that memories are much more quite complex, highly subject to change, and often simply unreliable.

The hallmark of these types of memories, which we call episodic memories ... aged four months to two years an image of a new face, object, or scene. Later, after the infants had seen several ...