How old are you in your earliest memories? Scientists from Yale University found evidence pointing to why we don’t remember being babies. While researchers once thought that this was due to an underdeveloped hippocampus, recent data seems to suggest that infant brains can form memories that we don’t remember as adults. Two potential explanations: These early memories are not converted into long-term memories; or we still have our infant memories, but cannot access them. “We’re working to track the durability of hippocampal memories…and even beginning to entertain the radical, almost sci-fi possibility that they may endure in some form into adulthood,” Professor Nick Turk-Browne said. (Science Daily)
Phone Topic: How old are you in your earliest memories?