19 Oct 2025

Enfacement: 'baby filter' could unlock childhood memories

From Sunday Morning, 8:41 am on 19 October 2025

A study has found that when adults see a childlike version of their face, they recall more detailed childhood memories. The study, conducted at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, suggested that bodily self and autobiographical memory are linked. 

Lead researcher Dr Utkarsh Gupta joins Jim to discuss how the memories were unlocked, and where further research might lead.  

Dr Utkarsh Gupta demonstrates the enfacement illusion

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