Why can’t you remember being a baby? With Nicholas Turk-Browne, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Why can’t you remember your first birthday party? Or the house you lived in at age 2? Nicholas Turk-Browne, PhD, talks about new studies that suggest that babies and toddlers may form early memories; why we aren’t able to retrieve them as adults; and how evolving brain imaging techniques could help answer these questions – and help us understand more about what it’s like to be a baby and how babies experience the world. Take our listener survey at http://at.apa.org/SoPSurvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.7	Can you remember your first birthday party?
1:02.5	Or your first words?
1:04.2	Or the house you lived in when you were two?
1:07.0	If you can't, and I bet you can't, why not?
1:11.2	The mystery of what scientists call childhood or infantile amnesia has long-puzzled researchers.
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