Brain's memory center stays active during 'infantile amnesia': Study ANI | Updated: May 22, 2021 22:54 IST Washington [US], May 22 (ANI): A new brain imaging study led by researchers at Yale University shows that infants as young as three months are already enlisting the hippocampus to recognize and learn patterns. One trait shared by all humans is that they don't remember specific life episodes that occurred before the age of 3 or 4. Many scientists have attributed this so-called "infantile amnesia" to a lack of development in the hippocampus, an area of the brain located in the temporal lobe that is crucial to encoding memory. However, a new brain imaging study by Yale scientists shows that infants as young as three months are already enlisting the hippocampus to recognize and learn patterns. The findings were published in the journal Current Biology.