The girl is part of a new study seeking to answer a century-old mystery: Why can’t most of us remember the first three years of our lives?
The research team behind the new study scanned the brains of 26 infants with functional MRI (fMRI), providing some interesting results..
It seems babies start encoding memories after the first year of age, while their hippocampus region of the brain is still developing, and each everyday experience is encoded in neural connections.
Based on the study they believe that lost memories encoded at a young age can be recovered later in life with reminder cues or by directly activating the set of neurons that originally encoded the memory.
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