How Does Your Memory Work?
A really interesting documentary on the workings of the “self definition” memory of the human being. There are a few different areas to our brain that deal with memory like speech and language and short term memories like shopping lists etc. This documentary follows the lives of three individuals who have very different memory to our own.
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11 Comments
Michael
Sep 15, 2008 6:16
pretty boring
Mon
Sep 17, 2008 22:19
Very good, I loved it
miss wanetta renay
Sep 23, 2008 5:57
great stuff, very compeling. If only American television were as informative.
Jude
Oct 14, 2008 21:20
this documentary was amazing, here i was taking life for granted. it pretty amazing to be alive and healthy for the most part. The most touching is from the man suffering from alzimhers. “Life is for living”
Weaxzezz
Oct 15, 2008 18:17
This was wonderful. I really liked the composition and the way it was presented. Perhaps a bit too sentimental for me thought, I would have liked it more with more facts.
leichik
Oct 22, 2008 22:17
thank you. a marvelous little window into an immensely complicated and fascinating world.
very well produced, shot, and cut. thank you.
Rob
Aug 16, 2009 9:41
At 17:00 minutes, Donna Addis professor at Harvard University, “might” just bullshit the worst Boston accent I’ve ever, ever heard.
Excellent, and well focused documentary with that humorous fact aside.
wordsman
Apr 6, 2010 2:49
A very personal experience. I have great difficulty remembering the past, and have a terrible time even contemplating planning stuff. I see life as if within a flashlights sweep, a small exposed area and all around, (or like looking at life through a space between the slats of a fence) front and back, grey to dark. It is very hard to explain this to anyone else, how time is for me.
Periodically, I write things down, copiously. And then forget and lapse, and then start again.
I have career and education and family, and feel a little less than human in my failure to recall. Some things stick,and there are wonderful ideas and connections, but the details vanish. Much of my youth, and, can it be, I don’t remember love?
Rafael
Apr 13, 2010 11:05
Very interesting, and informative. Thanks!
shaun
May 20, 2010 4:51
to wordsman:
Funy, I thought her access was a cross between eastern US and Australia….
Good documentary, I now have more questions regarding how memory functions then I did before. Like leichik I would have preffered more facts.
Patricia
Aug 8, 2010 19:14
Very nicely done. There is a great deal of information here that leads to other areas of research. For example, the process of memory and “learning” are quite closely related. However, many, many organisms have the ability to learn. It is the basic foundation of any species’ survival. Humans are not the sole proprietors of “memory” but we are the only ones who can talk about it and metathink about it.
I wish also to say the section about PTSD was very interesting. The test subject showed improvement after 6 sessions of recalling her traumatic memory in detail. In each session she also took Propanalol. The story suggests that Propanolol is the “cause” of her improvement, but research shows that Prolonged Exposure therapy does the same thing. Patients are guided through the memory an a very controlled manner, and after 6 to 12 sessions will show dramatic improvement in the EMOTIONAL intensity of the memory. And no drugs are involved.
I loved this show. Very thought provoking. Studying the mind is an amazing thing
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