1Department of Cognitive Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2Numerical Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Brain and Mind Institute, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 3Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, 4Department of Psychology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, B...

This article is a selective review of the literature on childhood amnesia, followed by new analyses both published and unpublished data that has been collected in my laboratory over two decades. Analyses point to fluidity people’s earliest memories; furthermore, methodological variation leads individuals recalling memories from substantially earlier their lives. How early one’s “earliest” memor...