Brain’s memory center stays active during ‘infantile amnesia’

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Brain’s memory center stays active during ‘infantile amnesia’

One trait shared by all humans is that they don’t remember specific life episodes that occurred before the age of 3 or 4. Many scientists have attributed this so-called “infantile amnesia” to a lack of development in the hippocampus, an area of the brain located in the temporal lobe that is crucial to encoding memory.

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