Why You Can't Remember Being a Baby | Childhood Amnesia Explained

Why can't you remember being a baby? You were awake for all of it, you learned faster than ever before, and yet the first three years of your life are simply gone. This is called childhood amnesia, and the real reason is far stranger than "you were just too young." In this video you learn why memory is a reconstruction and not a recording, why episodic memory needs a sense of self, how the growing hippocampus may overwrite your earliest memories, and why those forgotten years still shape who you are today. Research mentioned in this video: • Endel Tulving: episodic and semantic memory • Patricia Bauer: memory development in infants and toddlers • Paul Frankland and colleagues: hippocampal neurogenesis and infantile amnesia • Mary Ainsworth: attachment theory • Elizabeth Loftus: false memories Brain & Soul Lab explains what really happens in your body, mind and soul. Clear, science-based and easy to follow. Subscribe for new videos in English and German. #childhoodamnesia #memory #psychology