[Source: Science Daily]

If and how babies recall what they have learned depends on their mood: what they’ve learned when feeling calm is inaccessible when they’re active and vice versa. This was shown in a study with 96 children aged nine months.

The mood of infants is unpredictable: they may be playing happily one moment and be completely inconsolable the next. “Surprisingly, it hadn’t yet been understood whether these changes in mood affect learning and memory in babies,” says Professor Sabine Seehagen, Head of the Developmental Psychology research group at RUB. Studies with adults have shown that moods affect thinking. We remember experiences that we had in a certain mood, especially when we are in the same mood again.

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