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 ...

Despite infancy being a period of rapid learning, memories from this time, do not persist into later childhood or adulthood.

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

Long dramatized in movies and novels, amnesia refers to a profound loss of memory that’s temporary, permanent, or progressive (gets worse over time). Depending on the type and cause of amnesia ...

"By showing that the hippocampus is involved in the formation of memories in babies, our research shows that specific ...

Mice are one of the species that we know experience infantile amnesia. And, thanks to over a century of research on mice, we have some sophisticated genetic tools that allow us to explore what's ...

For a long time, infantile amnesia was thought to be tied to an inability to make memories in infancy. But a new study supports the idea that babies do, indeed, encode memories in the first years of ...

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

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

Still, the results don’t explain why we can’t recall some of the earliest moments of our lives, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. It’s possible that these memories aren’t ...