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 ...

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 ...

Hidden Memories is a new escape room-style release from developer Dark Dome where you need to reconstruct the events that ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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 ...