Things You Didn’t Know About Memory
A baby mobile above a cribImage: TobinCStudio (Shutterstock)A 2018 study, for instance, found that many people’s first memories likely never happened as remembered. Specifically, around 40% of people in the study recalled their first memory occurring before the age of two, while 15% recalled it before the age of one. But experts generally agree that our brains simply don’t form long-term memories before the age of three, at least ones that we can remember as adults.These implausible childhood memories, as the study!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…