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

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

Do babies make memories? Babies as young as 1 can form memories, according to the results of an MRI study published in ...

Delve into the most recent research in infantile amnesia, which suggests that we do make memories as babies, despite not ...

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 ...

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

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

Yet, paradoxically, we rarely remember any fragment of our existence before the age of three, and complete memories usually don’t form until around six. Some people claim to recall their first steps ...

Discover the science behind early memories and learn why our earliest experiences may remain inaccessible later in life.