The Existence Of Childhood Amnesia

The text was about an interesting concept named "childhood amnesia". This concept refers to the inability of humans to remember events that happened during the first three to five years of our lifes, this phenomen occurs to almost all people so it is considered as an universal amnesia, even when during our first years is when we tend to receive the highest amount of information and when we learn more. This kind of amnesia has been tried to be studied since it was first noticed by Freud in the XIXth century with no so much success because of the problem that asking directly to people represents.
The lecture added a very important point to the original concept that was touched in the original text, it was explained that there has been different
tries to explain the childhood amnesia but there is one that is generallly accepted. This theory says that in people's early years they have not developed completely their hippocampous which is a part of the brain where the process of keeping information takes place, so children in short ages encode information randomly while people with a mature hippocampous can organise and categorise information producing as a result the hability to remember facts and events.