The Reason For Infantile Amnesia

It still isn’t clear whether people experience infantile amnesia because we can’t form autobiographical memories, or whether we just have no way to retrieve them. No one knows for sure what’s going on, but scientists have a few guesses.

• The hippocampus, which is the region of the brain that is largely responsible for memory, isn't fully developed in the infancy period.
• Another possible explanation for infantile amnesia is that because infants don’t have language until later in the second year of life, they can’t form narratives about their own lives that they can later recall.