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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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