Think back to your very first memory. Why is everything before the age of three a complete blank? It turns out your brain wasn’t too underdeveloped to remember—it was actually too busy growing.
In this video, we dive into the fascinating neuroscience behind infantile amnesia. Every single day during your earliest years, your hippocampus was rapidly generating new neurons. But this explosive growth came at a cost: it completely overwrote your oldest neural connections, erasing your earliest experiences.
Combined with a lack of language to label the world and no developed sense of “self” to anchor those moments to, your first three years weren’t just forgotten. They were never permanently stored in the first place.
If you love deep dives into psychology, neuroscience, and the mysteries of the human mind, don’t forget to hit the Like button and Subscribe for more thought-provoking content!
0 Comments