Infantile Amnesia

Infantile Amnesia is the inability to remember early events.

Piaget and others suggest that early events are not stored in memory because the brain is not yet developed enough.

Frued suggest that early memories are stored but are repressed because they are emotionally troubling.

Others suggest that children cannot store memories until they can talk about them.

Contemporary researchers suggest that infants' memory processes may not differ fundamentally from older children and adults except that retention time is shorter.