Where do our early childhood memories go?

It’s a mystery that has long puzzled researchers. Why can’t we
remember our early childhood experiences? Freud called the
phenomenon infantile amnesia, and for many years scientists have
wondered whether it’s a result of failure to create memories or
just a failure to retrieve them. Now new research appears to point
to an answer. To find out more, Ian Sample talks to Nick
Turk-Browne, a professor of psychology at Yale University.. Help
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