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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

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