Babies Remember Even as They Seem to Forget

It used to be widely accepted that babies had no sense of "object permanence" at the age of six months or younger. "Object permanence" is a term that describes an infant's belief that an object still exists even when it is out of sight. Now, psychologist know that that isn't true. A new study from Johns Hopkins shows that even though young infants can't remember the details of an object, their brains have a set of built in "pointers" that help them retain a notion that something they saw remains in existence even when they can't see it anymore.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111219135226.htm