Babies as young as 12 months old can encode memories, study shows

Babies May Not Remember Infancy but They Do Form Memories

A new study finds that little ones as young as 1 can create memories. Here's what that means for parents.Fact checked by Sarah ScottParents/GettyImages/Oscar WongFor a long time, scientists have believed that babies’ brains were not developed enough to form memories. But researchers in a new study have discovered that little ones as young as 1 years old can create memories. These findings suggest that infantile amnesia—or the inability to rememb…

Babies Do Make Memories—So Why Can't We Remember Them as Adults?

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

Why Can’t We Remember Being Babies?

So many of us try to recall our earliest memories yet can’t seem to conjure up anything beyond a certain point. Our baby lives are completely unaccounted for in our Memory Palaces. Well, for most of us anyway. We’ve never fully understood it, and at best just assumed that babies are bad at forming long-term memories. New research seems to suggest otherwise. Infantile amnesia, as it’s called, may not be the thing, at least according to research p…

You don't remember the first years of life. U.S. researchers now find surprising indications that even one-year-olds are already storing what they have experienced with the help of experiments and brain scans. This would have far-reaching consequences.

A new study looks at why we can't remember any details from when we were babies. It's not that we don't have any childhood memories, but that we simply can't access them later in life, according to research cited by CNN.

Until now, it was true that infants can store memories in the long term at the earliest from the second to the third year of life. A US study corrects this idea. Experiences are already stored from one year onwards. By Frank Wittig.