THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY
A Book Excerpt From
The Road to Neuroplasticity and Change to Heal Trauma, Improve Cognitive Capacity and Maximize Performance
ABOUT THE BOOK
See Also:
Thoughts and Awareness of Self
Anatomy Of the Self: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Glossary
Your Memory Holds the Secrets
The Power of Positive Thought - Neuroplasticity
Practice Positive Self Affirmations Thoughts, Perceptions and Delusions Complexity of Human Emotion
Thoughts and Awareness of Self
Anatomy Of the Self: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Glossary
Your Memory Holds the Secrets
The Power of Positive Thought - Neuroplasticity
Practice Positive Self Affirmations Thoughts, Perceptions and Delusions Complexity of Human Emotion
MEMORY TYPES
Memory is the function of the brain by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed.
Declarative or explicit memory is the conscious storage and recollection of data. Declarative memory controls semantic and episodic memory. Declarative memory is usually the primary process of thought when referencing or triggering a memory.
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MEMORY
Memories begin as perception and experiences. They are then encoded onto the brain in the neurons. No one neuron is in charge of one particular memory. They combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time.
MEMORY FACTS
Memory is the function of the brain by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed.
- Short-term memory allows recall for a period of several seconds to a minute without rehearsal. Its capacity is also very limited.
- Long-term memory stores much larger quantities of information for potentially unlimited duration (sometimes a whole life). Its capacity is immeasurable.
Declarative or explicit memory is the conscious storage and recollection of data. Declarative memory controls semantic and episodic memory. Declarative memory is usually the primary process of thought when referencing or triggering a memory.
- Semantic memory refers to memory that is encoded with specific meaning,
- Episodic memory refers to information that is encoded along a spatial and temporal plane.
- Procedural memory is the slow and gradual learning of skills that often occurs without conscious attention to learning
- Priming is the process of subliminally arousing specific responses from memory and shows that not all memory is consciously activated
- Recognition memory tasks require individuals to indicate whether they have encountered a stimulus (such as a picture or a word) before.
- Recall memory tasks require participants to retrieve previously learned information.
- Topographic memory involves the ability to orient oneself in space, to recognize and follow an itinerary, or to recognize familiar places.
- Flashbulb memories are clear episodic memories of unique and highly emotional events.
- Retrospective memory is content remembered comes from the past
- Prospective memory is content that comes from the future
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MEMORY
Memories begin as perception and experiences. They are then encoded onto the brain in the neurons. No one neuron is in charge of one particular memory. They combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time.
- There is no single place where a given memory lives in the brain; it's scattered across many different regions.
- The memory storage capacity is around 2.5 petabytes.
- The first step to creating a memory is called encoding: It's when you notice an event or come across a piece of information and your brain consciously perceives the sounds, images, physical feeling, or other sensory details involved.
- If you attach meaning or factual knowledge to any of this sensory input, that's called semantic encoding
- To retrieve a memory, your brain "replays" or revisits the nerve pathways created when the memory was formed. Repeatedly recalling information helps strengthen those connections and your memories.
- The hippocampus is essential (for learning new information) to the consolidation of information from short-term to long-term memory, although it does not seem to store information itself.
MEMORY FACTS
- Memories start forming in the womb, as early as four months into pregnancy
- Sleep affects memory consolidation. During sleep, the neural connections in the brain are strengthened. This enhances the brain's abilities to stabilize and retain memories
- Most memories adults have come from when we were between 15 and 25 years old. It’s called the "reminiscence bump" which is the tendency for older adults to remember events that occurred during their adolescent and early adult years.
- Unless interested in a topic, most adults have an attention span of 20 minutes. Researchers estimate that the adult attention span has decreased by about 12 minutes in the past decade.
- According to a study conducted in 2001, left-handed people have better memories. The corpus callosum (the white matter in the brain) in lefties is larger than that of right-handed people.
- It’s has been widely believed that people with exceptional memories are born that way but in fact it is a learned skill that can be mastered through proven memory boosting techniques.
- Emotions, motivation, cues, context and frequency of use can all affect how accurately you remember something. This includes “flash bulb memories” which occur during traumatic events.
- When the mind recalls a memory, it's not the original memory. Remembering is an act of creative re-imagination. The composed memory doesn't just have a few holes; it also has some entirely new things pasted in.
- Being able to access information quickly like we can on the Internet actually makes it harder to remember. The harder we work to access data, the more likely we are to remember.
- Memories are shockingly unreliable and change over time. Memory can be corrupted when it’s encoded, stored, or retrieved. Normal functioning, decay over time, and brain damage all affect the accuracy and capacity of the memory.
- Studies have shown that sleep deprivation can lead to false memories as the memories are not properly transferred to long-term memory.
- Transience is when memories degrade with the passing of time. This can occur in the storage stage of memory, after the information has been stored and before it is retrieved. Information is rapidly forgotten during the first couple of days or years, followed by small losses in later days or years.
- Absent-mindedness is memory failure due to the lack of attention. Attention plays a key role in storing information into long-term memory; without proper attention, the information might not be stored, making it impossible to be retrieved later.
- Participating in physical activity has the ability to improve the functioning of the hippocampus (the part of the brain that is the center of memory storage).
- People who spent an hour outside improved their attention span and memory performance by 20 percent. It was theorized that interacting with nature has the same effect as meditating.
- The “production effect,” or saying things out loud while reading them, helps store those words in our long-term memories.
- Human minds can re-invent, distort, exaggerate or create a memory after any traumatic experience or event that affected them greatly.
- You need to forget a new piece of information at some level before remembering it in order to make that memory robust over time. The more a new memory fades before you try to retrieve it pthe more it’s subsequent “retrieval strength” improves.
- Even information that has long become inaccessible can be revived. Indeed it is then re-learned more quickly than new information.
- Believing your memory is good will actually help you have good memory
YOUR MEMORY HOLDS
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