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Study Shows Infants Form Memories

Friday, Feb. 16, 2007

(SAN FRANCISCO) — Adults thinking back rarely can remember anything before preshool, but those bright infant eyes staring back at mommy and daddy really are forming memories. It’s just that babies also forget. In fact, babies’ rate of forgetting is even faster than that of adults, Patricia J. Bauer of Duke University said Friday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Bauer was part of a panel discussing “infant amnesia,” the puzzling inability of people to remember events early in life.

Researchers have long speculated that babies’ brains were simply unable to form memories, but Bauer said new research indicates that is incorrect.

While rates of memory development vary among infants, all babies are extremely intelligent, added Lisa M. Oakes of the University of California, Davis. “The task they have before them is overwhelming.”