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>Failure of any of these steps [encoding, long-term etching, and recall of memory] causes amnesia. So, which steps are responsible for the erosion of baby memor
by CarRamrod 1y ago
>Failure of any of these steps [encoding, long-term etching, and recall of memory] causes amnesia. So, which steps are responsible for the erosion of baby memories?
>Who knows! Kids squirm around too much in MRI machines! But they start encoding things around a year, or maybe before, or maybe after!
I've been clickbaited
- larodi 1y agototal clickbait, indeed, author makes no substantial claims of any sort.
- Dylan16807 1y agoThat is not an accurate summary. The article clearly discusses how they limited squirming enough to gather actual data.
- catlikesshrimp 1y agoA Very long time average, by the way. 8 minutes is a long time for a baby to stay at once: not squirming, not upset, not touching mother and awake.
- CarRamrod 1y agoi'll let you go ahead and explain how they controlled for squirming, I'm interested
- Retric 1y agoThey presumably don’t have any extra information except what’s in the article which said they “often squirmed” rather than always, which means simply repeating the process enough gives times when they didn’t. If you want technique: “infants were _ to reduce movement.” If you missed what was in the blank you might want to reread to see what else you missed.
- ziddoap 1y agoYou can find the answer in this link: https://singularityhub.com/2025/03/20/new-baby-brain-scans-reveal-the-moment-we-start-making-memories/ https://singularityhub.com/2025/03/20/new-baby-brain-scans-r...
- SwtCyber 1y agoHaha, fair... there's definitely a bit of "science marches forward... sort of!" energy here