Six Month Old Babies Don't Remember Their Shape

The classical view that goes back to David Hume, like philosophers right wait hundreds of years, is that what it means to represent an object is to take an image of that object and just copy it into memory. And my intuition was that if we actually look at what babies represent that might not be what's going on. We capitalized on a kind of interesting limitation that specifically six month old babies have. They are really good at remembering what the, what the last object that you had looked like. But they don't remember its shape or color. What this suggests is that babies remember that the object should exist, even though they don’t remember what the object looks like.

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