Edit: I'm an idiot who didn't read the article. This literally is the research I'm complaining it's not. > Ryan and Frankland propose that the rapid birth of n

Edit: I'm an idiot who didn't read the article. This literally is the research I'm complaining it's not. > Ryan and Frankland propose that the rapid birth of new neurons, known as neurogenesis, in infants might be overwriting memories and that infant amnesia disappears once neurogenesis slows. When Frankland’s team used a drug to suppress neurogenesis in the hippocampus in infant mice, the juveniles performed as well as adults on memory tests. Original comment below, for completeness. --- > The main goal, Power says, is to figure out exactly when the developing brain switches on the ability to form accessible long-term memories. I don't get this. Why do seemingly all the academics in this field believe there's a threshold, before which there's no long-term memory, after which there is long-term memory? I mean, that might be true, but nobody seems to be considering the "memory is contextual, and context changes"-type hypotheses? Piotr Wozniak (2017) wrote about this in https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Semantic_aspects_of_childhood_amnesia https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Semantic_aspects_of_childhood_am...: > Frankland's hypothesis on the origins of childhood amnesia is that prolific neurogenesis hinders the establishment of long-term memories. This hypothesis keeps garnering evidence. In one of his seminal experiments, Frankland slowed down neurogenesis and achieved better learning. This simulates the effects of daycare: seeming acceleration due to stress (see: Stress and neurogenesis, and Stress and learning). > In this text I would like to provide some evidence for the dramatic impact of prior knowledge on the possibility of forming memories in childhood. Again the problem derives from a simple observation: the lesser the extent of prior knowledge, the lesser the opportunity to associate new pieces of knowledge with the existing semantic structure. There are lots of possibilities that don't seem to be considered. Maybe they've all been discredited since I last looked into this? But more likely, they'll only be seriously investigated once the current avenue loses steam (if it does: I have no special insight here).