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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure ... of people, places or objects. All the while, scientists recorded blood flow in the babies’ brains, a proxy of neural activity.

When comparing two objects, people either rely on internal memories of these objects or run their hands and eyes over them to ...

It’s not that you don’t have memories from infancy — it’s that ... around their family members and studying properties of objects and the world around them. Parents often see this learned ...