Left-handed people have earlier memories. That part of the brain is developed earlier for lefties. The majority I've asked can remember being a baby. Right-handed people tend to remember around 4 or 5, but I'm sure there are many exceptions with earlier memories, too.
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[–] Terez (236) 2 days ago
The problem is that memory is retroactive, you'll see this happen in cop shows all the time.
Put witness in front of a lineup... 'Which one did the crime?" witness "they all look alike" cop "what about the scar" witness "oh right, I now remember there was a scar on the left cheek."
See, people can convince themselves that they have a memory when what really happened was that they constructed a memory for themselves and now believe it to be true. Similar to asking people what they were eating at a ball game, if it wasn't unusual they'd think about what they normally eat at a ball game and then associate that with what they were eating.
The way we "remember" things isn't like photographs, it's reconstructive... we build off of things we know and make up all the rest. This is why people remember things differently as they get older and have more experience in life... it's because they're applying their experience on the fragments of information we call a memory to form a new perspective.
most adults don't remember last week let alone something from age 2.
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