• Question: why cant we remember many things from when we were a baby?

    Asked by jenniex to Arttu, Ceri, James_M, Monica, Philip on 17 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Arttu Rajantie

      Arttu Rajantie answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      I am not really an expert of this, but I have been wondering about this, too, especially when I have been watching my kids grow. Babies don’t seem to have a long-term memory, and that is probably because their brains are still developing. Especially the part of brain called hippocampus, which is known to be important for long-term memory, does not fully develop until they are 18 months old.

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