Psychology

You have almost no memories from before you were about three or four years old

Adults can recall almost nothing about their first few years of life, a gap known as childhood amnesia. It isn't that nothing happened — infants do form memories — but the hippocampus is still maturing, and the language and sense of self needed to store events as retrievable autobiographical memories aren't yet in place. The fog typically lifts gradually between ages four and seven.

JoNell A. Usher, Ulric Neisser, Childhood Amnesia and the Beginnings of Memory for Four Early Life Events — Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1993

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