A survey shows the possibility that your 'first memories' are stories made

by Carlos Martinez

Everyone has "the first memory", but in a survey of about 6,600 people, "creation" that many people's "first memories" did not actually occur It is shown that it is.

Fictional First Memories - Shazia Akhtar, Lucy V. Justice, Catriona M. Morrison, Martin A. Conway, 2018
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797618778831

Your Earliest Memory Probably Never Happened
https://www.livescience.com/63109-first-memory-fictional.html

The research team of Shazia Akhtar et al., Assistant Professor at Bradford University asked about 6,600 subjects aged 11 to 100 about "the first memory" and "the age at that time". At this time, it was emphasized that "the first memory" is not based on family stories and pictures but must be "memories that I experienced directly". People sometimes "create" memories from information such as stories and pictures they heard from relatives.

by Lindy Baker

As a result of the survey, 40% of the subjects claimed that "the first memory" occurred under 2 years old. Many of them are "memories of nine months to twelve months". However, according to scientific research so far, it has been shown that it is difficult to keep memory before 2 years old due to the mechanism of the brain. Because the formation of memory is helped to acquire the language ability, it is thought that children of the age of "2 years or under" which is the stage before the language acquisition is not sufficient in ability to form memories. Akhtar explains that memory before 2 years old is "made".

As a result of a survey conducted online, it turned out that nearly 2,500 people created the "first memories" by connecting childhood experiences. However, since these people believed "the first memories" for many years, they do not believe that memories are fakes even if they do scientific explanations.

by freestocks.org

According to Akhtar, people who have such fake "first memories" are more likely to be older than middle age, but "the most influential era" has been investigated There is no thing.

Starting with the 1965 research results announced that "Remembering the first memory affects the person's reality and your view on himself", the first memory has a big impact on the person's personality and life It has been thought that. Whatever the content, "I first recognized that I am conscious" is related to the foundation of that person, so it may be disturbing for people to be told that memory is "fake" ... apparently ...