Can babies remember?One thing I’ve always been fascinated with is the fact really young children don’t seem to remember a big chunk of their formative years.My earliest memory, for instance, is when I was about three and I was sat in our front garden putting soil and worms in a bucket while my dad mowed the lawn. Everything that happened prior to that? Well, it obviously happened but I have zero recollection of it. And lots of people would say the same thing. But why is this?When we’re born, our brain isn’t full developed and it continues to grow and change massively in those first few years of life. For example, a baby’s brain is about a quarter of its adult size, but by the age of two, it’ll be three-quarters of its final size. Amazing, right? And as our brain develops, our memory does too.A recent study published in the journal Science used brain scans of 26 children aged four months to two years old to understand whether babies actually form memories. Children were shown a picture of a new face, object or scene for two seconds,