ABSTRACT
Your early memories: the role played by language It is unusual, if not well-nigh impossible, for you to recall anything that happened to you in the first three years of your life. This phenomenon is referred to as infantile amnesia. It is not that you learnt nothing during those early years. A number of studies show that infants can act out actions they have seen modelled earlier by other people. It seems strangely ironic that, at this point in life, much learning is indeed taking place, but very little of what is being learnt is explicitly memorable later in life.
