Noam Hassenfeld

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301 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 30 Aug

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Today, Explained · Why can’t I remember being a baby? · 16 Aug 2026 podcast

But the more I think about it, the more I wonder whether it's real. matched

And recently, I've been thinking about this question a lot for a totally different reason. matched

My wife and I just had our first kid. matched

He's a little over seven months old. matched

And when I'm sitting with him or making up games, I wonder, is he going to remember any of this? matched

And does it matched

week on Explain It To Me from Vox, why can't I remember being a baby? matched

And what does that mean for how I should be a father? matched

It's Explained It to Me. matched

I'm Noam Hassenfeld. matched

And we've been talking about our earliest memories. matched

Tristan Yates is a cognitive psychologist at Columbia University. matched

Kristen says scientists are still figuring out exactly why we don't remember our first few years of life. matched

Okay, so yeah, you did this study recently on this hypothesis. matched

What'd you do? matched

What'd you find? matched

mean, I just flew with my seven-month-old to Chicago, and that was extremely difficult. matched

Like, how do you get a baby to sit still in an MRI? matched

Baby IMAX. matched

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