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Brain Scans of Infants Reveal the Moment We Start Making Memories
A new study on "infantile amnesia" aims to answer a century-old mystery: Why can’t most us remember our earliest years?
Though infants and toddlers aren’t yet able to give detailed verbal feedback, studying their behavior has begun to shed light on if and when they remember people, things, or places. They found that at roughly a year old, a part of the brain crucial to memory formation spun into action and began generating neural signals related to things the kids remembered from the tests. “The ingenuity of their experimental approach should not be understated,” wrote Adam Ramsaran and Paul Frankland at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, who were not involved in the study.
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