For years, scientists believed that our first memories vanished because the brain wasn’t developed enough to store them. But ...

Have you ever been convinced that you remember being a baby? A moment in a crib, or the taste of a first birthday cake?

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

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

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

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.

Newborns are more likely to experience a type of memory called “statistical learning,” which is focused on extracting ...

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