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Each of us holds many events in memory of childhood, but even with a strong desire, we can not remember everything. None of the adults can not remember the time of his birth and early life. Our memories are cut off from approximately 3-7 years. Such a phenomenon psychologists call childhood amnesia. The term "infant amnesia," introduced by Sigmund Freud in 1899. According to Freud, the adults are not able to remember the events of the first 3-5 years of life, as in the first years of life a child experiences aggressive and sexual impulses often against their parents. But this idea was of a unilateral nature and did not prizhilas.

Perhaps the main cause of childhood amnesia are differences in the coding of the information obtained from children and adults. And if an adult is able to store a lot of data, the child they periodically disappear. The process of forming memories is engaged in a network of nerve cells is created in 6-18 months. At this stage, there is a short-term and long-term memory. But if our memory has reached the desired level, why we forget our childhood? It turns out that this is due to the lack of opportunities to associate events with the words, because we still can not speak, do not know the words to describe an event. See also: Why do children bite their pencils? In runet three times more children than adults. The children suffer from a lack of parental attention of fans of the Internet. Teens who used to go to bed, it is better protected from depression. Clever children are much more likely to become alcoholics. Adults and children are reversed (13 photos).

Source: scienceblog.ru/2008/06/03/pochemu-myi-ne-pomnim-kak-rodilis/