For decades, scientists believed that infants couldn’t form lasting memories due to the immaturity of certain brain ...

Have you ever wondered why you can’t remember being a baby? Your first words? What about your first steps? Don’t worry, ...

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 ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

New research challenges the idea that infants cannot form memories, showing that babies as young as 12 months old can encode ...

Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period — a phenomenon known as ...

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Catching it early can make a ...

Late REM sleep may promote memory formation at a second stage, only after periods of early sleep have occurred. A second supplementary study focused on the possible influences of circadian rhythm ...