Have you ever been convinced that you remember being a baby? A moment in a crib, or the taste of a first birthday cake?

New research is challenging longstanding beliefs about why we don't retain the memories we form in early life.

Even though babies are constantly learning, their memories of specific events seem to vanish. For years, scientists thought ...

MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults ...

Why don’t we remember specific events during those crucial first few years, when our brains worked overtime to learn so much?

Scientists have long thought that babies can’t form experiential memories. Turns out, they can. Adults just can’t remember ...

As people age, their episodic memory — the ability to remember past events and experiences — tends to wane, but their ...

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time.

“The hallmark of [episodic memories] is that you can describe them to others, but that’s off the table when you’re dealing ...