<story><title>Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/this-is-where-your-childhood-memories-went-rp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notahacker</author><text>Aside from the changes to the brain hardware, I&amp;#x27;d imagine the way in which we construct memories changes to a much higher level of abstraction in early childhood (e.g. building &amp;quot;photographic&amp;quot; memory from a set of concepts around location, lighting and types and condition of objects rather than simply colours and shapes, building our memory of human interaction from a mental model which assumes the other people have motivations and personality traits not just tones of voice etc). So even if some of the information from earlier years is actually preserved, our older brains may not be able to parse it unless it was important enough to reconstruct with a different mental model.</text></comment>
<story><title>Studying how the brain relinquishes childhood memories</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/this-is-where-your-childhood-memories-went-rp</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ggm</author><text>I try very hard to avoid making myself special in amongst the general case. But, I came here to observe I had verified memories from close to pre-verbal times, something I am told is not common.&lt;p&gt;If these were subsequent implants from conversation or comment from my elders, it was pretty subtle. The memories are far weaker now, but up to my twenties they were strong, lasting visual impressions of three specific locations.&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m in my fifties now)</text></comment>