Last August, I moved across the country with a child who was a few months shy of his third birthday. ... Even infants are aware of the past, as many remarkable experiments have shown. Babies ... But it turns out that all children are Joshua Foer: Even very young children have bewilderingly good memories. read more
Well, toddlers and babies do not have very strong or good memories until they turn four or five. They do have recognition memory but it is limited to people whom they see often or with whom they are attached. Memory for planning develops in the second year with development of cerebral cortex and frontal lobes. read more
Your baby's recognition memory — the ability to identify people and objects he has seen before after a delay or time apart — will increase dramatically during his first year. Experiments have shown that at 3 months, babies can remember new pictures or toys shown to them one to six days previously. read more
This is a perplexing fact about childhood amnesia. Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers actually do have robust memories — even long-term ones. As a parent you’ve no doubt seen this in action, as I have. read more