Babies Have More Memories Than Originally Thought

According to the conclusions of a new scientific research, it would appear that children are perfectly capable of remembering that an object existed, even if they don't see it anymore. They cannot remember details on an object that was hidden from view, but they do know that it still exists.

This is an interesting discovery for researchers, who have been trying to figure out how the memory of children functions for a long time. “This study addresses one of the classic problems in the study of infant development,” Johns Hopkins University study researcher Melissa Kibbe explains.

In other words, the main conclusion of the research was that children remember objects without knowing what the objects themselves are. At this point, the team plans to use this knowledge to gain some deeper insight into the neural mechanisms that support memory in both children and adults, PsychCentral reports.