Why You Can't Remember Being a Baby

Why can't you remember being two years old? Childhood amnesia is the reason your earliest years are a total blank. You have a functioning brain, so why is the receipt for your second birthday missing? Childhood amnesia is the scientific term for this black hole in your biography. We look at the latest research from Memorial University, where scientists are mapping out exactly why early memories vanish, even when they feel like they should be there. It turns out memory formation is a complex game of retrieval and storage. We break down the biological barriers preventing you from accessing those toddler years and what happens in your head when you try to recall the past. This is about the limits of brain development and how your hardware changes as you age. Subscribe for more answers you didn't ask for, but needed. Let me know in the comments: what is the absolute earliest thing you can remember? #InfantileAmnesia #ChildhoodAmnesia #PsychologyFacts #stickman #stickmananimation #psychology #neuroscience #memory #infantileamnesia #brainscience #childhood #science #philosophy #humanbrain