If you remember the moment you left the first steps or when you said a full-time word for the first time, you probably invented it yourself.

A massive study on childhood memories concluded that it is impossible for people to remember occurred before the age of three and a half. The study published in the Psychological Science Journal found that 40% of people's memories are fabrication, as they say they happened before the age of two.

Early memories, often in the cart, are the result of memory mixed with the imagination.

Professor Martin Conway, co-author of the study, said: "This kind of remembrance starts with someone saying" the mother had a big green cart. Then the person in question imagines how it may have seemed. "

Indeed, it does not recall the feeling of being in a green cart, but fragments of later memories in life blend with fiction.

Researchers also found that people form genuine memories at age five or six, but anyway, the three year-old memories are considered realistic.

To study childhood memory, researchers asked 6,641 people what their first memory was and confirmed that they were not related to a photo or family history. According to Conway, fictional memories are often the result of photographs or stories told by others.

2,487 respondents said their earliest memory occurred before the age of two and a half, with 893 being said to be older than one year and a half. Researchers feel that this is impossible, considering how the brain develops.

Although we may seem to remember something from toddlers, the researchers came to the conclusion that memories are invented at least until the age of three.

Source: The Independent