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The Memories You’ll Never Recall

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Most people can’t remember anything from before age three. That’s because the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center, isn’t fully developed in early childhood. 


This phenomenon, called infantile amnesia, means those early years leave almost no lasting autobiographical memories behind

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