Before You Could Remember, Part 3
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Our personal memories only extend back so far in life, and before that, there is a void. Why don’t we remember our early childhood and what does it say about human memory, childhood development and cultural ideas about infants? Robert and Joe explore in this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind…
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| 0:00.0 | America loves its founding fathers, but that's a tough act to follow as a founding son. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Bob Crawford. Join me, Patrick Warburton, and Nick Offerman, as we bring the sixth |
| 0:11.1 | president to life. Was there ever witnessed such a bare-faced corruption in any country before? |
| 0:16.8 | Let justice be done, though the heavens fall! |
| 0:21.2 | Listen to Founding Son, a curiosity podcast on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, |
| 0:27.9 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:57.9 | Join the journey soon. |
| 1:27.9 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:44.5 | Hey you, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. |
| 1:47.7 | And I'm Joe McCormick, and we are back. |
| 1:50.6 | Finally, with part three of our series on Childhood Amnesia, we had a bit of an |
| 1:56.1 | interruption in the series last week to first of all to some sick days and then to a scheduled |
| 2:01.4 | interview, but now we return to finish off the series. So I thought we should do a brief refresher |
| 2:07.6 | on the stuff we talked about in the past couple of episodes here. So the term Childhood Amnesia |
| 2:14.4 | refers to a couple of different facts, which are first of all the facts that most adults cannot |
| 2:20.9 | conjure any genuine first-hand episodic memories from before, roughly the age of three. |
| 2:27.9 | And there are some minor variations in that age horizon that have been observed to correlate |
| 2:32.4 | with variables like gender, girls tend to have slightly earlier memories, culture, different |
| 2:37.9 | cultures have on average different memory horizons. But on average we can say most people's |
| 2:44.2 | earliest memories tend to be somewhere in the range of three years old or between three or four. |
| 2:49.1 | And then the other fact is that once we do start having memories for the next four to five years |
| 2:56.5 | after that, we have fewer memories than would be predicted by the normal rate of forgetting that |
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