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

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

Amnesia can impact memory recall, the formation of new memories, and independence. Learn about its types, causes, symptoms, ...

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.

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 ...

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

“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 ...

study shows that babies as young as 12 months old can encode memories, researchers report. The findings suggest that ...

Childhood amnesia, was Freud right? Amnesia is a term used to cover the partial or complete loss of memory. It's usually associated with either physical trauma such as a blow to the head or some ...