Occasionally it is possible to remember some previous element, but it is not frequent and it would be limited to some very significant phenomenon or a sensation or image. In fact, when they ask us about our first memories, most people usually indicate some type of element or situation that they experienced from that moment on. This amnesia usually affects the memories that occurred before three years of age. That is, we conserve, for example, the skills acquired in this stage (for example, walking or talking), but not how we did it. Infantile amnesia is defined as the inability to remember the phenomena and situations that occurred in our early childhood, at an autobiographical level.
Related article: 'Episodic memory: definition and associated parts of the brain'.What happened before that first memory? Why can not we remember something before it, such as when we learned to walk or talk? The explanation to that void of memories has a name: it is called infantile amnesia. Our brains already processed the information from the environment and we were even able to learn skills, information and ways of acting. But by then I had been alive for several years. What is your first memory? The answer to this question will be in most cases a situation or a brief image of some event or sensation that we experienced in our early childhood, mostly corresponding to when we were between three and five years old.
