Although measles is seen as a contagious viral disease that passes quickly, it can also cause damage that leaves long-term health effects. A measles infection can lead to a phenomenon called 'immune ...

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

Yale study shows infants' brains can form memories earlier than thought, challenging long-held beliefs about infantile ...

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

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time.

Discover the science behind early memories and learn why our earliest experiences may remain inaccessible later in life.

Even though babies are constantly learning, their memories of specific events seem to vanish. For years, scientists thought ...

Explore how the memory of the COVID-19 pandemic is fading, and how Trump's administration is dismantling democracy and economic stability.

Mice are one of the species that we know experience infantile amnesia. And, thanks to over a century of research on mice, we have some sophisticated genetic tools that allow us to explore what's ...

Why don’t we remember specific events during those crucial first few years, when our brains worked overtime to learn so much?

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

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time.