Why can a baby learn what an adult cannot remember?
A baby learns about faces, objects, and routines long before being able to tell a story about yesterday. Yet most adults cannot recall events from their own infancy. Learning something, recognizing it later, and remembering an episode years afterward are different achievements.
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- How can a researcher test memory in someone who cannot speak?
- What would show whether an early memory was lost or simply became difficult to retrieve?
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- Yale NewsWhy don’t we remember being a baby? New study provides clues
Explains an infant brain-imaging study and how researchers tested recognition before children could describe a memory.
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