Tag: childhood amnesia
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Every memoir begins with a lie. Not a deliberate deception, but something stranger: a claim to remember what cannot, by the laws of human memory, be remembered. The research on childhood amnesia is quite clear. By the age of three or four, the architecture of the brain has not yet…
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Every memoir begins with a lie. Not a deliberate deception, but something stranger: a claim to remember what cannot, by the laws of human memory, be remembered. The research on childhood amnesia is quite clear — by age three or four, the brain lacks the capacity to encode experiences as…
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