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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nMost adults can vividly remember their first day at school, a family holiday or the birthday when they finally got the bicycle they had been dreaming of. But ask someone about their second birthday, or the lullaby their parents sang when they were a baby, and the memories usually disappear into a blur. So, when do children actually start forming memories that stay with them for life? The answer is more fascinating than you might think. According to scientists, babies begin creating memories far earlier than most people realise. The reason we can’t recall many of them has less to do with memory itself and more to do with how the developing brain stores and retrieves those experiences. Scroll down to read more\u2026<\/p>\n Long before they can speak, babies are learning from the world around them. They recognise familiar voices, remember faces and even anticipate routines. Research suggests that infants as young as six months can retain simple memories for short periods, and by their first birthday, those memories can last much longer.<\/p>\n 3 Jul 2026 | 12:38<\/p>\n This doesn’t mean they’ll remember being rocked to sleep or their first taste of mashed bananas decades later. Instead, these early memories help babies learn, recognise loved ones and make sense of their environment. Studies<\/a> have shown that memory begins developing in infancy, even though its earliest forms are very different from the autobiographical memories adults rely on.<\/p>\n This phenomenon has a name: infantile amnesia. Most people remember very little, if anything, from the first two to three years of life. Even memories from ages three to seven are often patchy and incomplete. Scientists<\/a> believe this happens because the brain regions responsible for forming lasting autobiographical memories, particularly the hippocampus and parts of the prefrontal cortex, are still maturing during early childhood.Young children are constantly creating memories, but many of those memories are either reorganised or become difficult to access as the brain develops.<\/p>\nBabies start making memories almost from birth<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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