Although fragments of memories and isolated images of events that occur between the ages of 3 and 4 are sometimes available to adults, coherent episodic memories are not usually available for events prior to the fourth birthday.

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This phenomenon is known as childhood amnesia, where adults have difficulty recalling episodic memories from the first few years of life, typically before age 3-4, due to the underdevelopment of the brain's memory-forming areas during early childhood.

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