Infants and Memory
One of my best friends had a baby on Sunday and now I am all hopped up with baby fever. Little tiny, brand new babies that sleep all the time and smell so good.
As I was holding him he opened his eyes and was so alert, it made me wonder what babies or infants remember if anything at all.
My first memory was from when I was three years old. Doctors had always thought that infant’s brains were unable to record memories but not true says a new report, it is just that they only hold onto the memories for a much shorter time then adults.
“The ability to form memories depends on a network of structures in the brain and these develop at different times, Bauer said. As the networks come together between 6 months and 18 months of life, researchers see increased efficiency in the ability to form short- and long-term memory, she said.
From age six months to two years, memory increases from about 24 hours to a year, she said.”
Babies are even smarter then we thought!
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February 20th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Aww, babies are just the most perfect creatures on earth. Very interesting facts about memory. You learn something new everyday.