Charlie McHenry<p>Brain scans of infants reveal the moment we start making memories - A team from Columbia and Yale University scanned the brains of 26 infants and toddlers aged 4 to 25 months as they completed a memory task. They found that at roughly a year old, a part of the brain crucial to memory formation spun into action and began generating neural signals related to things the kids remembered from the tests. <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memory</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brain</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/physiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physiology</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/BrainDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thinking</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/ChildGrowthAndDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildGrowthAndDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <br><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2025/03/20/new-baby-brain-scans-reveal-the-moment-we-start-making-memories/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">singularityhub.com/2025/03/20/</span><span class="invisible">new-baby-brain-scans-reveal-the-moment-we-start-making-memories/</span></a></p>