The Truth About Why You Can't Recall Your Childhood

You were awake, learning and feeling at a pace you'll never match again. So why can't you remember any of it? In this video, we break down infantile amnesia: why the first two or three years of your life are a blank wall, what Freud got wrong, what neurogenesis does to early memories, and the latent memory research suggesting those years may not be erased at all. Chapters: 0:00 The blank wall where your childhood should be 0:56 Your earliest memories might be wrong 1:40 Freud and the repression theory 2:18 Why rats and monkeys break Freud's theory 2:48 The hippocampus and neurogenesis 3:37 The mouse experiments: slow growth, better memory 4:15 Latent memories: the traces that go underground 5:20 Not an empty room, a sealed one 5:49 Implicit memory: how the body keeps the score 6:49 Language and the two memory systems 7:52 Culture and memory as a social technology 8:46 Where this leaves you 9:50 What if they just became you? #psychology #science #evolution