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

Okay, that actually sounds much better than the MRIs that I have gotten done in my life. matched

Okay, so you got the babies in the baby IMAX, in the baby taco. matched

And then what are you looking at? matched

Like staring longer or something like that? matched

Exactly. matched

Got it. matched

basically found that they did remember because they stared longer at the images they'd already seen. matched

And you're getting this additional layer of evidence showing that the hippocampus, the part of the brain that, you know, researchers for a while thought maybe was not developed enough to function in early childhood. matched

You're saying it is functioning. matched

So does that mean the babies are forming memories? matched

Yeah. matched

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What do we think happens to those memories if we think they're being formed? matched

Do they just get wiped? matched

What's going on? matched

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Yeah, you can't find your way through it. matched

So it's like because babies are learning so much about the world, like object permanence or how to walk or how to speak, they might just not be able to actually remember things because too much is happening. matched

The idea of your question, what's the point of infancy, is so interesting to me because it's as if we have to almost learn how to remember, if that makes sense. matched

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