MadSci Network: Development
Query:

Re: what do babies remember?

Date: Wed May 17 11:17:49 2000
Posted By: Dave Marsen , Grad student, Neurobiology, electrophysiology , University of Amsterdam
Area of science: Development
ID: 958503372.Dv
Message:

Hi …. 

Your memory is working from the moment you're born ... but because you 
don't understand a thing (you will learn that in the first couple of 
years…= consciousness)the memory anagrams ...don't mean a thing  ...until 
you know what to do with the information 

(and partially because you're brain is still maturing...i.e. if you never 
encountered any image ..(because you're blind for instance) ...you're 
visual system in your brain will not mature and have no function ... and 
that's for almost all your brain functions ..so if a baby is confronted 
with a horse ... in the months that his visual system is not yet matured 
...he/she will only remember a fuzzy brown thing ...)

The moment that a baby will remember something ... is  different from the 
moment that he or she is conscious of something ... And that are two 
different things



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