Mechanisms of critical period in the hippocampus underlie object location learning and memory in infant rats

Learning & Memory

Published in: Learning & Memory, Volume 25, Issue 4, 176-182 Abstract “Episodic memories in early childhood are rapidly forgotten, a phenomenon that is associated with “infantile amnesia,” the inability of adults to remember early-life experiences. We recently showed that early aversive contextual memory in infant rats, which is in fact rapidly forgotten, is actually not lost, […]

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