Studies targeting domains like object recognition or social cognition often require infants to encode and later recall complex information. We therefore argue that these tasks tap into episodic-like memory and that evidence for infant memory is more prevalent than previously recognized!

In this fun collaboration with @levelsof.bsky.social and Nick Turk-Browne, we first review the classic tasks used to test infant memory -- but we don’t stop there. We also highlight tasks from other cognitive domains that may place hidden demands on episodic-like memory.