Very fascinating article, and it makes a lot of sense about not being able to remember things before I had the right context to remember. It's always interested me, too, because when I was younger I believed I had the ability to remember as far back as 3 years old, but now after discussing it with my parents most of my early memories, except for maybe 5 very early memories, are from 4.5-5 years old, though there are many of them so that I felt I remembered longer. The article also makes me wonder, then, if pre-language societies (or, at least, pre-sophisticated language) remembered their childhoods much better than we do. Fascinating stuff.
Very fascinating article, and it makes a lot of sense about not being able to remember things before I had the right context to remember. It's always interested me, too, because when I was younger I believed I had the ability to remember as far back as 3 years old, but now after discussing it with my parents most of my early memories, except for maybe 5 very early memories, are from 4.5-5 years old, though there are many of them so that I felt I remembered longer. The article also makes me wonder, then, if pre-language societies (or, at least, pre-sophisticated language) remembered their childhoods much better than we do. Fascinating stuff.