A longitudinal study in the Netherlands found that infants who displayed greater curiosity at 8 months of age tended to have ...

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can’t, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don’t hold onto these experiences because the ...

We all can’t remember our first steps, our first birthday, or even the first favorite toy. Those early infancy days just seem to have vanished into thin air. This bizarre behavior, infantile amnesia, ...

The human brain creates visual categories as a fundamental aspect of cognition. Infancy is a crucial period of life for such representations to be built up, but these are as yet unknown. A recent ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Whenever I teach about memory in my child development class at Rutgers ...