Each of us stores in the memory many events of own childhood, but even with a strong desire, we can not remember everything. None of the adults could not recall the time of his birth and early years of life. Our memories dropped from about 3-7 years. This phenomenon psychologists call childhood amnesia.

The term “infant amnesia” was introduced by Sigmund Freud in 1899. According to Freud, adults are incapable of remembering the events of the first 3-5 years of his life, because during the first years of life the child is experiencing aggressive and ofter sexual proclivities against their parents. But that idea was unilateral and not to beget.

Perhaps the main cause of childhood amnesia are differences in the encoding of received information of children and adults. And if an adult is able to store a lot of data in memory, then child periodically lose them.

The process of forming memories is controlled by network of nerve cells, which is created in 6-18 months. At this stage a short-term and long-term memory is appeared. But if our memory has already reached the desired level, why we forget our childhood? It turns out that this is happening because of lack of possibility to link events with words, because we do not yet know how to speak, and do not know the words that can describe any event, the IT-Day says.