AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -"The hippocampus should be ready at about the age of 4 and this is usually when children start remembering things consistently, ” says Rachael Elward, Ph. D., an expert in the cognitive neuroscience of memory. “The older a child gets, the more stable their memories become."

Detailed explanation-2: -In these studies, almost all researchers concluded toddlers are able to retain memories several months and perhaps years after an event occurred. Because they are so small, their brains are still developing but such studies have proven that they are capable of having a strong memory.

Detailed explanation-3: -On average the earliest memories that people can recall point back to when they were just two-and-a-half years old, a new study suggests. The findings, published in peer-reviewed journal Memory, pushes back the previous conclusions of the average age of earliest memories by a whole year.

Detailed explanation-4: -“But as soon as we started examining it in childhood … we started to see that, yes, children form memories; yes, children retain them; and yes, they forget them just like adults, just a little bit faster, ” Bauer says. She and her team found 3-year-olds could recall something that happened, say, at 18 months.