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Extensive research on autobiographical memory has illustrated that few people remember very much of what happened before the age of two or three, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia.
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Extensive research on autobiographical memory has illustrated that few people remember very much of what happened before the age of two or three, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. The missing memories are episodic in nature, not semantic or procedural, which means that adults have no problem remembering the skills, language and social customs they acquired in infancy, while episodic/event memories are not properly retained. Since Freud directed the academic attention towards this phenomenon, various theoretical approaches have been put forward in order to explain it. Some of these approaches that will be reviewed here, suggest that due to context or encoding differences between early childhood and adulthood these early memories will become inaccessible. An important dimension of this approach suggests that the language in a young child is still developing, so that the mind changes in ways that make very early memories inaccessible. Another line of argument proposes...
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