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

Visual encoding and memory play pivotal roles in how humans and other animals interact with and understand their surroundings. These processes allow ...

According to the authors, the presence of encoding mechanisms for episodic memory during infancy – despite their ephemeral nature – suggests that infantile amnesia is more likely due to failures in ...

Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that after the human brain encodes specific events or information, it can ...

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

The Østby sisters, one a neuroscientist and the other a writer, explore the uncharted territory of memory in their new book. Researchers deliver bursts of light to specific cells in the mouse ...

Why don't we remember our early years? For a long time, it was believed that infants lacked the ability to remember. However, ...

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

By Adrien Marenco Courtesy of Yuri Shirota via Unsplash Most people’s first memory comes from when they were around 3 to 4 years old and experienced an emotionally important or mildly traumatic ...

Researchers from ISTA discovered that sleep helps solidify spatial memories by reorganizing neuronal patterns. During non-REM ...