‘What remains in a lifetime of memories?’ Apparently what remains most are memories from between the ages of 10 and 30. The findings of the study supported what others had shown before them – that before the age of five most people report almost no memories. Then, between five and ten, the number of memories begins to increase, hitting a peak for both genders in the late teens. This period of increased reported memories stays quite high until the early twenties, when it begins to drop and then stabilise for the remaining decades. So we seem to retain the most memories of our teens and
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