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Why can’t we remember our early years? Do babies make memories at all?
- A study published in Science shows that babies as young as 12 months can form memories using the hippocampus, a brain region linked to memory in adults.
- Researchers at Yale and Columbia tracked 26 infants, finding they looked longer at familiar images, indicating memory recognition.
- The findings suggest that episodic memory begins developing earlier than previously thought, around two to three months old.
- Tristan Yates noted that the study suggests early life memories may exist, but the question of their durability remains unanswered.
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Babies Might Remember More Than We Thought
Nobody remembers their first few years of life, but that doesn't mean babies don't remember anything at all. "We have memories from what happened earlier today and ... even from a few years ago," Tristan Yates, a cognitive neuroscientist at Columbia University, tells NPR . "But all of us lack memories from...
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It is often said that younger children are like sponges, capable of absorbing information with great ease. This ability is related to the plasticity of the brains, that is, the ability to reorganize, modify and form neural connections, which is maximum in the first years of life. Yet, we barely keep memories of that stage.
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