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Why babies have no memory of their early years

Infants retain no conscious memories of their first three years of life, a phenomenon called infantile amnesia.

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This lack of explicit memory results from incomplete hippocampus development and absence of language to encode memories.

Neuroscience explains that early learning is encoded in implicit memory, without conscious access to this information.

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