The post looks at the mystery of how we have such trouble remembering this period, when psychology studies show that infants’ memory is actually quite good. Infantile amnesia provides an explanation to the adults inability to recall events and experiences from their early years. This amnesia usually affects the memories that occurred before three years of age.
But you're definitely in the majority if you don't recall anything from your early years. That is, we conserve, for example, the skills acquired in this stage (for example, walking or talking), but not how we did it. Childhood or infantile amnesia, or the lack of memory from the first few years of childhood, is common. What’s more, these infants preferred the familiar passage even if spoken by someone other than their mother, strongly suggesting that they had encoded (and retained) a relatively high-level representation of the passage’s auditory content. Infantile amnesia is defined as the inability to remember the phenomena and situations that occurred in our early childhood, at an autobiographical level. Many scientists have attributed this so-called 'infantile amnesia' to a lack of development in the hippocampus, an area of the brain located in the temporal lobe that is crucial to encoding memory.
One of those questions is how early memories, despite being forgotten on a behavioral level, continue to have effects on the animals physical and mental health later in life. Seuss’s “Cat in the Hat”) that had been read to them twice daily for the last 6 weeks of gestation from similar passages (matched for word count, length, and prosody). Infantile amnesia is a robust and ubiquitous phenomenon however, there are still many unanswered questions about the nature of infant memories. It turns out that studies done on young babies, even babies in the womb, have shown that infants have got surprisingly good memory.Īs reviewed by Hayne, 3-day-old infants were capable of distinguishing a particular passage (from Dr. There’s a great post from Developing Intelligence looking at research on ‘infantile amnesia’ – the ‘amnesia’ we have for events that happened before about 3 years of age.
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