Benjamin ShouseLife's Little Mysteries contributor Latest articles by Benjamin Shouse Why don't we remember being babies? By Benjamin Shouse, Emily Cooke last updated 26 March 25 The inability to remember your first few years of life is called infantile amnesia. But why does it happen? Neuroscience Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter nowGet the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors LATEST ARTICLES1Catquistadors: Oldest known domestic cats in the US died off Florida coast in a 1559 Spanish shipwreck 2'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers3Astronomers discover giant 'bridge' in space that could finally solve a violent galactic mystery4James Webb Space Telescope finds a wild black hole growth spurt in galaxies at 'cosmic noon'5Chinese scientists makes nuclear power breakthrough using abandoned US research
Why don't we remember being babies? By Benjamin Shouse, Emily Cooke last updated 26 March 25 The inability to remember your first few years of life is called infantile amnesia. But why does it happen?
