Why can’t you remember being born, learning to walk or saying your first words? What scientists know about ‘infantile amnesia’

Whenever I teach about memory in my child development class at Rutgers University, I open by asking my students to recall their very first memories. Some students talk about their first day of pre-K; others talk about a time when they got hurt or upset; some cite the day their younger sibling was born. Despite […]

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