This is Why Baby Memories are Hard to be Remembered

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

I will never forget my first birthday. I was wearing a very beautiful white dress and a fairytale flower crown. I was just the cutest baby ever. Everyone was squeezing me with their kisses, pinching, and even pulling my poor chubby cheeks.

Many smiley faces surrounding me and singing to me happy birthday. Guess what I was too busy gazing at that chocolate cake set before me and I couldn’t wait to blow off the candle and smashed it with my both little hands instead.

Luckily, my parents recorded a video of my birthday party otherwise I would have never remembered how I looked like or what I was doing at that time. It is frustrating, right?

I mean it’s not just birthdays but many memories from early childhood are completely deleted from our memory. No matter how hard we try, we won’t be able to bring back those baby years memories to the forefront. No worries this is very normal as it happens to everyone and not just you!

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According to researchers, the following phenomenon is known as “infantile or childhood amnesia”. And this refers to the absence of memories and events occurred in our early years of childhood. Its causes remain mysterious and are hard to be understood.

Researchers, however, claim that they have found a physical mechanism that might clarify a bit the enigma behind this phenomenon.

In a conducted experiment on mice, a scientist has discovered that as we grow older, the growth of new brain cells automatically erases the early old memories and replaces them with new existing ones. How?

So, when researchers slowed down the process of developing new brain cells, the mice tend to maintain powerful and clear images and memories, whereas the rapid and fast growth of these cells or neurons caused a difficulty for the mice to remember its early memories. This could only be interpreted this way: the birth of new memories in the brain erases the older ones.