¿Por qué no podemos recordar nada de cuando éramos bebés?
Research explains why you can’t remember being a baby Fiona MacDonald Tuesday, 01 July 2014 Scientists have found the first evidence of a physical mechanism that may stop us from remembering our early childhood. Image: StudioSmart Researchers have long puzzled over why we can form memories when we’re babies, but then go on to have no recollection of those years - a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia . Now recent research in rodents may have found the answer. It turns out all the new cells that are constantly being formed in young brains may actually be messing with our memories . Mammals generate new brain cells all the time, but when we’re babies the rate of this process, known as neurogenesis, is at its highest. Because of all the new things we experience as infants, there’s a lot of early-life action in the hippocampus in particular - the region of the brain that is associated with memories and le...