Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don't hold onto these experiences because the part of the brain responsible for saving memories—the hippocampus—is still developing well into adolescence and just can't encode memories in our earliest years.

Babies encode memories, but they’re unable to recall them later in life, a new study shows. This finding offers insight into the learning and recall process.

A new study indicates that memories of baby experiences might remain, lurking in the deepest recesses of the mind, and adults simply aren’t capable of accessing them. Researchers found that infants do indeed form memories of specific events,