Ever wonder why you can't remember being a baby? This episode of Looping Pixels dives deep into the profound mystery of infantile amnesia, revealing the shocking biological, neurological, and social reasons why your earliest memories are lost or inaccessible. From explosive brain growth to cultural influences and the very act of learning to walk, discover why your personal life story has a 'blank slate' at the beginning, and if those memories are truly gone forever.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction to Infantile Amnesia
00:51 - Do Babies Form Memories? The Durability Question
02:46 - Vivid Toddler Memories & The Central Conflict
04:59 - Your "Earliest Memory" is a Moving Target
09:14 - Why Your Memory Details Are Constantly Changing
12:39 - The Biology of Forgetting: Hippocampal Neurogenesis
15:17 - The Library Analogy: Brain Under Construction
18:31 - Epigenetics: Parental Lifestyle & Offspring Memory
21:01 - Brain Maturation & Functional Connectivity
25:44 - The Embodied Hypothesis: Locomotion & Spatial Memory
31:09 - Social Scaffolding: Language & Cultural Influence
39:26 - Why Infantile Amnesia is a "Perfect Storm"
40:20 - Three Shocking Revelations About Your Past
42:00 - Could We Ever Unlock Our Lost Baby Memories?
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