Human MemoryBy: Lyndsey Pearson

Early Life It’s hard to tell what babies are thinking

or how good their memories are, but research shows they do remember things.

Babies have short term memory, they remember sounds from in the whom.

When they hit 6months and up they start to remember places and people better.

Childhood Children are more likely to remember things that

catch their fancy. Certain movies, sweet foods are high in their

memory, less intriguing things do not stay in their memory as well.

Memory loss in children can be caused from a brain injury. Specifically amnesia.

Traumatic injury can impair a child’s memory. Seizures, stroke, and brain infections can also be a

cause of childhood memory loss.

Short Term Short term memory is the capacity of

holding a small amount of information in the mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

Short term memory decays over time In order to remember something

longer it must be rehearsed or repeated.

The capacity of short term memory is called memory span.

For Fun

Long term

Long-term memory is intended for storage of information over a long time. Information from the working memory is transferred to it after a few seconds. Unlike in working memory, there is little decay.

The Long Haul

There are three main activities related to long term memory: storage, deletion and retrieval.Information from short-term memory is stored in long-term memory by rehearsal.The repeated exposure to a stimulus or the rehearsal of a piece of information transfers it into long-term memory.

Early memories It's unusual to remember things before you

are three years old because the brain is not physically developed in that way.

Memory requires meaning. Your must understand what something is

before you can remember it. You do not remember things from when you

were a baby because you didn’t know enough knowledge about the world at this time.

Fascinating Human ability to conjure up long-gone but specific

episodes of our lives is both familiar and puzzling. Memory seems to be a source of knowledge. Memory differs from perception. Memory is also unlike imagination, because it is

real. There can be close interactions between

remembering, perceiving, and imagining. Memory is closely related to emotion. When there

is strong emotion related to a time in our life we will remember that event clearly, likely for the rest of our life. For example, childbirth, war, elections, weddings, death, tragedy etc.

Fun Facts

Brain Your brain uses less

electricity than a refrigerator light.

Sunlight makes you sneeze. You can not tickle yourself

with the exception of the roof of your mouth.

Yawns wake up the brain. Think of yawns as your

body's attempt to reach full alertness in situations that require it. They are also contagious.

Memory Jet lag can damage

memory. There’s a reason we

remember all those annoying songs.

We recall sequences and this makes every day life possible.

Your memory is constantly being upgraded.

Dreams

General Your dreaming mind has access to vital

information that is not readily available to you when you are awake. Your dreams serve as a window to your subconscious and reveal your secret desires and feelings.

In remembering your dreams, you gain increased knowledge, self-awareness and self healing.

They may be a source of inspiration, wisdom, joy, imagination and overall improved psychological health.

Remembering your dreams help you come to terms with stressful aspects of your lives.

Remembering Nightmares are a subcategory of

dreams. The distinction of a nightmare is its frightening and/or emotional content. You tend to wake up in fear in the midst of a nightmare. Because of its frightening nature, you are more likely to remember your nightmares and the vivid details. 

They have a bigger impact upon your waking mind. Its images stay with you throughout the day. 

Some studies show that people who are more sensitive, intuitive, creative, or imaginative are more prone to have nightmares.

Why do some remember dreams and some don’t? Most remembered dreaming occurs during a phase of sleep

called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, which occurs about every hour-and-a-half.

We are also better able to recall dreams if we awaken during REM sleep.

It is important to pay attention to a dream immediately upon awakening if it is to be recalled.

Wanting to remember dreams is also important. As to why some people remember more dreams than others,

high recallers may be more motivated to recall dreams, or they may have a better memory for things they see (visual memory) rather than memory for words and numbers.

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