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Most people cannot memories of being a baby, nor of their infancy. However, some people they can remember things that in the first year of their lives. Researchers at Yale and Columbia University in the United States why people have no recollection of things that happened in the first four or five years of their lives. The research team also whether or not babies memories at all. Researcher Dr Tristan Yates we may not be able to remember a baby. He said: "Our results suggest that babies' brains have the capacity for memories, but how long-lasting these memories is still an open question."

The research has been in the journal "Science". It that babies as young as a year old can form and store memories. Researchers used a specially scanner to activity in an area of babies' brains called the hippocampus. This is where memories are created and stored. The research found that babies can limited types of memories from the age of two months. It is possible that infants can patterns in people's faces, language and in daily routines. However, episodic memory, which us to recall specific events, may take longer to . The researchers say this kind of memory may not until the hippocampus has more fully .