Infantile amnesia is the forgetting of memories in young children. In this paper, the authors show that in rats early life memories are not lost but rather stored in a latent form that can be retrieved later during adult life following exposure to appropriate reminders. The formation of these early memories requires the hippocampus and is subject to a developmental critical period that depends on mechanisms similar to those underlying critical periods in sensory systems.
- Alessio Travaglia
- Reto Bisaz
- Cristina M Alberini
