On this week’s show: Investigating “infantile amnesia,” and how generalized fear after acute stress reflects changes in the brain
. She joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss ongoing experiments that aim to determine when the forgetting stops and why it happens in the first place.This is the science podcast for March 15th, 2024. I'm Sarah Crespi. We have two neuroscience stories this week. First up, freelancer Sarah Reardon asks, why do infant's memories fade? We discuss ongoing experiments that are looking to pin down the hows and whys of infantile amnesia. Next on the show, more brain stuff.
It's more important at that stage in your life to be learning about the world in general, to be learning what a cat is versus remembering, I live next door to this particular orange cat. So you can forget about the orange cat, but you remember the word for cat. You remember what things associated with it. And you could kind of focus more on finding patterns than having individual memories.
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