… if you have memories that ‘survived’ that early childhood forgetting zone, then you are more likely to be able to continue to remember them later in life.

Our brains are endlessly fascinating and our memory is especially interesting. I sometimes think of it like my own on-board movie theatre – a warm comfortable place to spend some pleasurable time.  But memories can be terribly unreliable, especially memories from our childhood. Only recently, researchers have pinpointed why.

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