The second year of life may be particularly memorable. Around the time of their first birthday, children make dramatic advances in remembering simple events for 4 months after witnessing them, a new study finds. This memory breakthrough depends on a proliferation of neural connections in memory-related brain structures known to develop as infants approach age 1, propose Harvard University psychologists Conor Liston and Jerome Kagan.
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