In 1905, Sigmund Freud introduced the term " More than a century later, psychologists are still intrigued by why we cannot remember our lives when they were babies or kids until recently, scientists believed that the young brain is not sufficiently developed to form long memories. But studies have shown that kids from two years can form memories and recall the events that occurred months earlier, in great detail, writes Theguardian.

" And up to about seven years, memories of childhood are usually ambiguous.

Studies of a professor of neurophysiology from New York University Kristina Alberini on animals found that the memories that have developed during the period of childhood amnesia are really preserved in the brain until adulthood, even if they are not consciously remembered.

Both adult animals and in people, the formation and storage of long -term memories of life experience is impossible without a section of the brain known as hippocampus, scientists say. This site is also important for early memories.

The study of Alberini suggests that children's amnesia occurs through a critical period, when the hippocampus develops thanks to a new experience. "

It is interesting that in New Zealand Maori the first memories appear earlier than in Europeans, at about 2.5 years old. Professor Elein Riz from the University of Otago, who studies the autobiographical memory of children and adolescents, indicates a strong emphasis on oral traditions in the culture of Maori, as well as complex conversations during memories of past events.

Riz tracked the groups of children from childhood to adolescence, finding that people who had a richer narrative environment in childhood could recall the earlier and detailed first memories.

According to scientists, the brain retains the memories not as separate files on the computer, but as a network of neurons throughout the brain. Mention activates these networks and strengthens the connections between neurons. However, this does not mean that memory is stable. "

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In a 2018 survey, 39% of respondents reported that their first memories arose at the age of two or less. Researchers suggested that “incredibly early” memories, such as memories of how you were pushed in a stroller or first walk, were probably fictional and were based in photographs or family stories.

But although the memory is plastic, and young children are more prone to suggestion, especially vulnerable events can be remembered, experts say.

So, if the experience of our early stages-the first birthday, the first steps, the first trip to the beach-it seems that it remains somewhere in the brain, why we cannot deliberately get access to them, researchers ask ourselves.

Although psychologists say that forgetting can be adaptive, this does not explain why the memories that have developed for the seven years of age seem to be destroyed faster than when we are adults.

Kristina Alberini puts forward a hypothesis that early memories can function as schemes on which adult memories are built. Like the foundation of the house, they remain hidden, but important.