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Yale Study Reveals Infants Can Form Memories Earlier Than Believed

3/24/2025

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A groundbreaking Yale University study has unveiled that infants as young as 12 months can actually encode memories, overturning the long-held belief that they simply can't form them. This research suggests that the fading of early memories may stem from retrieval failures, highlighting the hippocampus's surprising early development of episodic memory skills.

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A groundbreaking Yale University study has unveiled that infants as young as 12 months can actually encode memories, overturning the long-held belief that they simply can't form them. This research suggests that the fading of early memories may stem from retrieval failures, highlighting the hippocampus's surprising early development of episodic memory skills.