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Originally Posted by Sainters7
I don't know if its physically possible to remember something that young so maybe I just remember hearing the story about it or something.
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Apparently you can't start remembering things until you've developed your sense of "self". You can't have an episodic memory of
you if you don't know who
you are. I believe that occurs somewhere after the age of 2.
Edit: and also, "false" memories may be created, which is why clinical psychologists have guidelines about questions they can ask so they don't steer a patient into remembering something that didn't happen.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia!
The development of self-awareness at around two years of age has also been proposed as an explanation, where memories are inherently associated with one's sense of self, such that memories encoded before self-awareness develops are not comprehensible to the individual even though some information is stored in the brain. [16] |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia