When Do Childhood Memories Fade?

How much do you remember about being a child? Probably not too much. Childhood memories can be a bit spotty. But at what age is your brain able to maintain memories so that you can recollect them later in life? Anthony tackles this question as he takes a look at some recent research on a phenomena known as childhood amnesia. Read More: Psychologists document the age our earliest memories fade “Although infants use their memories to learn new information, few adults can remember events in their lives that happened prior to the age of three.“ The Onset of Childhood Amnesia in Childhood: A Prospective Investigation of the Course and Determinants of Forgetting of Early-Life Events #.UugaBWTTksk “The present research was an examination of the onset of childhood amnesia and how it relates to maternal narrative style, an important determinant of autobiographical me