Did you know that possessing a greater amount of dopamine receptors in the hippocampus results in better episodic memory? It’s a wonder why some people have great memory of past events, while others have none. As an adult it gets increasingly harder to remember events you experienced as a child. It has always been a phenomenon as to why you can’t remember the memories you had as a child. Why you forget what happens before the age of four. As an infant your brain is busy making new cells in the hippocampus, so they don’t store memories that would otherwise be long-term. The hippocampus is an organ in your brain that plays an important part in storing long-term memories. They are forming memories, but through natural processes these are fading
