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How Does Your Memory Work?
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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.
Memory develops early in your childhood and as time progresses you find parts of your memory “drops off”.
Your memory shapes your identity …it is you. There are some interesting facts presented in this video short but it is how you interact with your surroundings which develops your memory.
How Does Your Memory Work?,
is tht tht sexy ewan mcgregor voice??????
06:32 Or it could be their ability to realize that the image they see in the mirror is actually a reflection of themselves and not another child (anyone who owns a dog or cat will be familiar with this).
Having a natural capacity to score high in this, it looks as if keep this up, i will push my brain a lot further than ever before. Also very similar to fitness and power training, i never expected to be hauling weights around more than double my own body weight either, surely an impossible thing without training.
shopping lists lol never used that, i do often forget stuff i ought to buy when in the store however.About a month ago i came to the conclusion my cognitive abilities must have decreased by lack of use, so i figure doing some mental fitness and watching what i eat VERY similar to how i started doing (physical) fitness a couple of years ago, was in order.
My earliest memory is from 18 months old :S
Mind. Your Mind is a gift. Your memory works like this. You have brain cells that carrys information. When you look at a specific object that object goes through a series of eye cells that soon get proccesed in your brain there for creating an image in your head that stays win there until death. All memory stays in your brain all you have to do is remember. Lossing memory is one thing. If you hit your head hard enough that destroys brain cells witch deceases your ability to remember more.
03:04 I wish there was this version of Hushabye Mountain on Youtube =/
fallopian tube Hhahahha ! How could you remember that ? LOL
@933smartass > how funny … my memory DOES work on “Low Budget” … But I guess somehow & somewhhere we al store the implicdit moments … CHEERS …
so he thinks forgetting items needed for a shoppinglist is minimal? try making minimal mistakes all the time and see how the accumulation of it stops your life……
This should be one of the most studies areas of science to help people with these problems.
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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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.
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?