Essentially, the research suggested that children suffer from Childhood amnesia and were in general not able to remember events that occurred before the age of seven due to the increase of new cells in the hippocampus called neurogenesis. This neurogenesis in the hippocampus created newer and more efficient networks that overwrite these old childhood memories. The early brain of a child is working, in that they are storing memories, but it is not as efficient as an adult brain is at storing memories. Therefore, the natural process of making their brains more mature and efficient overrides the old childhood memories and hence you get childhood amnesia. They also suggested that early memories that are remembered later in life are memories that
