Can we tap into our earliest memories?

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3102, 2016, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People probably can't remember life as a two-year-old. But memory traces from their earliest years might stay in their brains, ready to be reactivated with the right trigger, according to research in rats. Most people have infantile amnesia, meaning they can't remember the first two or three years of their life. One idea is that growth of new neurons at this time in brain areas involved in memory formation interferes with storage of memories. As a result they are lost forever. To investigate, Alessio Travaglia at New York University and his team turned to rats, in the belief that they also experience infantile amnesia