What's It Like Inside a 15-Month-Old's Head?
What if you could spend a day inside the head of a fifteen-month-old? A listener's question about his son Ezra opens up the science of infant experience: color perception before color words, faces specialized by eleven months, a circadian clock still calibrating, and a body that knows how to reach and balance without storing a single memory of doing it. Then the big one — does Ezra actually know his dad? And the memory bombshell: new fMRI research on awake infants suggests the hippocampus starts encoding around one year, which means infantile amnesia is a retrieval problem, not a blank tape…
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