How much do you remember about being a child? Probably not too much. Childhood memories can be a bit spotty. But at what age is your brain able to maintain memories so that you can recollect them later in life? Anthony tackles this question as he takes a look at some recent research on a phenomena known as childhood amnesia. Read More: Psychologists document the age our earliest memories fade esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2014/01/psychologists-document-age-our-earliest.html "Although infants use their memories to learn new information, few adults can remember events in their lives that happened prior to the age of three." The Onset of Childhood Amnesia in Childhood: A Prospective Investigation of the Course and Determinants of Forgetting of Early-Life Events www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09658211.2013.854806#.UugaBWTTksk "The present research was an examination of the onset of childhood amnesia and how it relates to maternal narrative style, an important determinant of autobiographical memory development." Wayne State University Teams Up With MIT To Discover How Brain Mechanisms for Memory Retrieval Differ Between Children and Adults research.wayne.edu/news.php?id=9510 "Neuroscientists from Wayne State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are taking a deeper look into how the brain mechanisms for memory retrieval differ between adults and children." The Development of Neural Correlates for Memory Formation www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22414608 "A growing body of literature considers the development of episodic memory systems in the brain; the majority are neuroimaging studies conducted during memory encoding in order to explore developmental trajectories in memory formation." Recall of Childhood Memories en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_memory#Recall_of_childhood_memories "The types of childhood memories that an adult recalls may be linked to personality." Better Understanding of Memory Retrieval Between Children and Adults www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120724115105.htm "Neuroscientists are taking a deeper look into how the brain mechanisms for memory retrieval differ between adults and children." Watch More: Why Can't We Remember Being Babies? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3MFixiXwc TestTube Wild Card testtube.com/dnews/dnews-476-allergies?utm_campaign=DNWC&utm_medium=DNews&utm_source=YT Are Memories Reliable? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxSHf_BeVUA ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel DNews on Twitter twitter.com/dnews Anthony Carboni on Twitter twitter.com/acarboni Laci Green on Twitter twitter.com/gogreen18 Trace Dominguez on Twitter twitter.com/trace501 DNews on Facebook facebook.com/dnews DNews on Google+ gplus.to/dnews Discovery News discoverynews.com

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