![]() So the currant hypothesis is that the growing and pruning of the brain during this time essentially erases our previous memories, save for the skills that are used continuously or memories that the child revisits often for whatever reason. They grow and are trimmed back during that time more than in any other point during life outside the womb. But we do know that until the age of about 5, human brains develop rapidly. Now giving humans drugs to accelerate brain development just to see what happens would be pretty fucking unethical, so we don’t know for certain if the same process happens in people. The reason why this is the case is under debate, but one interesting study showed that brain growth and development in mice and rats actually leads to them forgetting previously learned things if they aren’t still doing those things while their brain is growing. If you mean remember all the way to adulthood, no. That’s how they’re able to recognize family vs strangers and start learning things like how to use their bodies and language and a bunch of other stuff. It depends on what you mean by “remember.” If you mean do they remember from one day to the next? Yes, they will remember that. I have every reason to believe, however, that these unusually early memories are very, very real. I'm not saying that these old memories are infallible, of course - they are sometimes distorted by my perceptions of things at that age. It's actually something of a problem, sometimes, in that I remember far too much detail and have trouble filtering it.Īlso, my short term memory is utter shit. I also have had a long-time therapist, who is a psychologist, comment on how vividly, and how far back, I am able to recall. (Not years long, of course - they can only test within the time span of the testing itself - but still). Not only that, but my memory has been extensively tested by neuropsychologists, due to an illness that affected my brain, and my long term memory has been shown to be extraordinarily sharp. another significant detail, since - correct me if I'm wrong, typewriter enthusiasts - this would be an unusual key for a mechanical typewriter owned by a Euro-American family in the 80s/90s to have had. My favorite key was a yen symbol (I only learned what it was later, of course). it was only later in life that I learned that this was unusual, and that typewriters weren't just toys for making noise and stamping images all on top of one another until it became a blob of ink. ![]() I was also able to, unprompted, recall precisely where it was located in the house, which was not an obvious or easily-guessable location, and why its presence was short-lived (the paper didn't move. This would have been unusual for the time and for our family's circumstances. These details also place the memories very specifically in time, and even I was, at first, surprised to learn how young I must have been at the time.įor instance, recently, it came up that there was a very short span of time in which we had a typewriter in our house. I have been able to recall very specific details that I could not have known about, because they were so unimportant and short-lived that no pictures were taken and they would never have been brought up after the fact, and even my mom didn't recall until I specifically mentioned them. Nope, not in my case - trust me, my family doubted me for a long long time, until they just couldn't anymore.
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