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Childhood amnesia (also known as infantile amnesia) is the inability to recall the first two to three years of our lives—an absence of memory that has puzzled psychologists since the 19th century. In ...

A new developmental theory from an Iowa State researcher describes how our memory and perception of trauma can evolve over ...

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