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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why can't we remember our memories when we were a baby?
gpt
Infantile amnesia is not well understood, partly because we still have a lot to understand about memory, and also because for obvious reasons there is only so far we can go studying infants and young children without some sort of ethics problems.

There is some evidence that memory is linked to language. Studies have shown that children exposed to more 'memory' related talk seem to have earlier first memories that not. Also the development of retrievable long term memories seems to correlate somewhat with language acquisition.

However there is still a big unknown in the area - a couple of little factoids to help blow your mind:

- typically children 0-5 will show day-to-day memories (i.e. remember what happened yesterday) yet will not be able to recall their childhood once they're older

- The range of infantile amnesia appears to change throughout the life-span, more most of our adult years more of our childhood is inaccessible and often more younger memory returns as people reach elderly ages

Sauces: 4th year developmental psyc.