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[janice shell]

You Don’t Remember Being a Baby, but Your Brain Was Making Memories

Brain scans capture memory formation in babies, raising new questions about why people forget their earliest years

BY NICK TURK-BROWNE EDITED BY DAISY YUHAS

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-dont-remember-being-a-baby-but-your-brain-was-making-memories/

It says, among other things:

When you ask adults about their first memory, for a specific event from their childhood, their answer typically dates back no earlier than preschool. This is true whether you ask a college student or a grandparent, suggesting that adults’ lack of infant or toddler memories is not just the result of normal forgetting that occurs with the passage of time. The gap in our autobiographical memory from when we were a baby is known as “infantile amnesia.”

True? I don't think so. I remember stuff from when I was two; that was corroborated by my mother. And I remember much more from three and four.

I don't think that's particularly unusual.