Personal Narrative: Why Don T We Remember Being Infants

Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth – 19 years.

1.1 Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth – 19 years

When you are born your brain is in taking all the different sounds and figures around you. Your brain was developing before you even arrived in the world that you are now aware of. After conception your brain starts to grow at a rapid rate; neural tubes

Debates have been circling of when the human brain is developed new research from Sandra Aamodt and has shown brain development

These parents must understand that the hippocampus, which is in the limbic system, plays a precarious role in their memory. At the same time,

What shocked me the most about how babies think is that they can actually make thoughtful, profound decisions based on very simple stimuli from their environment. (Gopnik, 2011). The difference between the 15-month-old babies and the 18-month-old babies was so distinct, despite both seeming very similar from an outsiders’ perspective. I would have never expected that the 18-month-old babies would determine their course of action on whether to give a “yucky” food or a “yummy” food to the person asking for a piece of food based on that persons’ previous reaction. (Gopnik, 2011) Some children cannot even speak by that age, so it seems pretty amazing that

The brain develops by forming connections; this can be seen in the brains of infants which develop them at an amazing rate. The connections happen in response

The human brain is a very complex organ that is considered the processing center for all information that is received in from outside sources to sending information out to other organs. One function of the brain that is very important to human’s way of life is memory. Memories are a recollection of events, persons, sounds, or fact from the past. It is the mental capacity of retaining or reviving previous experiences (Duff, Wszalek, Tranel, & Cohen, 2008). Short-term memories are recollections from recent events and long-term memories are recollections of events past (McCaffrey, 2015). There are four different regions of the cerebral cortex each responsible for certain aspects of memory. The prefrontal cortex plays a part in processing short-term memories and retaining long-term memories. The parietal lobe integrates sensory information from various senses such as smell from the nose or sounds from the ears (McCaffrey, 2015). The occipital lobe processes what we see with our eyes and the temporal lobe is involved in processing smell, sound, semantics in speech and vision. The temporal lobe is the key part of the brain that converts short-term memories to long-term ones (McCaffrey, 2015). A person has explicit memories that are consciously recalled knowledge such as how to eat and tie ones shoes for instance and implicit memories that are nonverbal memories embedded in behaviors and actions such as breathing (Brennels,

According to Cindy Hill, there are four stages of brain development. They are the following: prenatal development to birth, birth to age three, age three to age eleven, and then age eleven to death. From prenatal to birth, their brain develops its basic framework, but it isn't fully developed yet. Also, during this time, the brain is arranging the neurons the infant will have at birth (approximately 100 billion neurons). Then, from birth to age 3, the brain starts to connect the unconnected neurons present at birth. The environment helps with this by causing your brain nerve cells to send signals to each other, making pathways of connections (Hill, 2015). This makes sense to me since I grew up with my cousins from birth to now. When they were first born, they didn’t really do much except eat and sleep. Then, as they got older (as the pathways of connection started to complete) they started functioning more like learning to crawl, walk and talk. They began to notice more things and become more curious about their environment.

Can humans remember their memories from in the womb? This question has been debated by scientists for centuries. Most scientists believe today, that humans cannot remember anything from the womb. The question scientists are debating is which theory causes this memory lost? The theories that will be discussed in this paper are the fetus’s brain has too many neurons and the fetus’s brain is underdeveloped.

As a child grows they learn manty things as their brain grows and develops. The brain develops as the child grows. A brain develops from stimuli it receives as the child grows. before a baby is born the brain is already starting to “wire itself up”. The brain continues to do so until it is 2 years old. When a child is two they have 100 billion neurons in its brain. As the child receives different stimuli the brain perceives these stimuli and gore from it developing into a working adult brain.

As an infant I was unaware of my actions and cannot recall any events that occurred during this 1st stage or moral development. This is typical of infants because this

Brian development is a constant battle. Development between conception and age three undergoes an impress amount of change. At birth, it already has all of the neurons needed. In

The biological development of the brain enriches the capability of a brains capacity for knowledge. Neural plasticity (brains capacity) changes its structure in response to experience and stimulation. Enriched learning promotes continuous stimulation although lack of stimulation causes pruning. The neurons grow dendrites which branch into neighbouring neurons to allow processing of the hippocampus reconstructing a new memory if stimulation occurs frequently (Duchesne & McMaugh, 2016, p.42) The environment of a child has a direct affect of the way the brain will develop questioning the structure and function of the brain.

From the ''Inside the Teenage brain,'' article ‘The vast majority of brain development occurs in two basic stages: growth spurts and pruning. In utero and throughout the first several months of life, the human brain grows at a rapid and dramatic pace, producing millions of brain cells.