912-Infant Memory Schemas

Paper Talk · May 7, 2026 · 22m

Research indicates that infantile episodic learning creates enduring mental schemas that significantly impact behavioral development into adulthood. Although early memories often seem forgotten due to infantile amnesia, these latent representations undergo hippocampus-dependent systems consolidation to provide a foundation for future knowledge. In adult mice, these schemas specifically facilitate relearning and the acquisition of new, congruent information within the same learning domain. Neurologically, this process requires the reactivation of specific neural ensembles in the prefrontal…