Why can't you remember being born, learning to walk or saying your first words? What scientists know about 'infantile amnesia'

Psychologists know babies can form memories soon after birth. So why can’t people remember anything that happened to them before around age 2? A child development expert describes possible reasons.

Vanessa LoBue, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark • conversation
June 8, 2022 • ~7 min

Misremembering might actually be a sign your memory is working optimally

Errors don’t necessarily mean your mind is faulty. They may actually be a sign of a cognitive system with limited capacity working efficiently.

Robert Jacobs, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester • conversation
Nov. 19, 2021 • ~10 min

This DIY contact tracing app helps people exposed to COVID-19 remember who they met

With new US COVID-19 cases topping 200,000 a day, contact tracers are overwhelmed. Here's how infected people can start tracing and notifying contacts themselves.

Ian Jason Lee, Doctoral Student, Florida International University • conversation
Dec. 4, 2020 • ~7 min

New DIY contact tracing app expands the fight against COVID-19, using the science of memory

With new US COVID-19 cases topping 200,000 a day, contact tracers are overwhelmed. Here's how infected people can start tracing and notifying contacts themselves.

Ian Jason Lee, Doctoral Student, Florida International University • conversation
Dec. 4, 2020 • ~7 min

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