Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period—a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. A new study published in Science on ...

Whenever I teach about memory in my child development class at Rutgers University, I open by asking my students to recall their very first memories. Some students talk about their first day of pre-K; ...

Infants need to sleep a lot because sleep is necessary for learning and the first years are filled with new experiences and information. Napping soon after learning may help infants remember new ...

Six-month-old babies are severely limited in what they can remember about the objects they see in the world; if you hide several objects from an infant, they will only remember one of those objects ...

Have you ever wondered why your earliest childhood memories begin around age three or four, with everything before that seemingly lost to time? A pioneering study from Yale University has uncovered ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Whenever I teach about memory in my child development class at Rutgers ...