Infantile amnesia prevents memory retention from the first couple of years of life
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SUPPORTED
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confidence 88/100
Extensive developmental and neurobiological evidence supports the existence of infantile amnesia, which describes the inability to retain and access episodic memories from the earliest years of life due to rapid forgetting and immature neural structures.
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Infantile Amnesia: A Critical Period of Learning to Learn and Remember.
2017 · cited by 137
Discusses infantile amnesia as the inability of adults to recollect early episodic memories due to rapid forgetting or underdevelopment during a critical developmental period.
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Children remember early childhood: long‐term recall across the offset of childhood amnesia
2007 · cited by 50
Examines long-term recall across the boundary of childhood amnesia, showing that complete forgetting characterizes very early experiences.
Empirical Evidence Supporting Neural Contributions to Episodic Memory Development in Early Childhood: Implications for Childhood Amnesia
2020 · cited by 15
Explains how protracted neural development in structures like the hippocampus contributes to the fragility of memories early in life.