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Unraveling Childhood’s Forgotten Moments

Early critical periods of life, like childhood, are periods of extraordinary brain plasticity with big implications for memory. How do we form and retain memories during these periods, and why does infantile amnesia take our earliest memories?

Speakers

Alison Gopnik, Advisor/Fellow, Child & Brain Development and Learning in Machines & Brains, University of California Berkeley

Sarah Power, Child & Brain Development, Next Generation Trainee, Max Planck Institute for Human Development 

Tomás Ryan, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2020-2022, Child & Brain Development, Trinity College Dublin 

Moderator
Sara Reardon, science journalist

Host
Jennifer Moore Rattray, CIFAR Board Director