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

While the study cohort included children between the ages of four and 24 months, the team observed memory formation preferentially in those who were about 12 months or older. Scientists have ...

Typically, the earliest adult memories of childhood start at about age 4. But scientists have wondered why not sooner. Is it because babies’ brains are too immature to form memories? Or do ...

Anterograde amnesia is a type of memory loss that makes it difficult to form new memories. Brain damage or inflammation due to a head injury is often the cause of anterograde amnesia. Anterograde ...

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 ...

there are far fewer memories before the age of eight than for other periods. There a number of ideas. The most controversial belonged to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud who believed childhood amnesia ...