Why do we remember not how to improve our memory?
Human memory is peculiar, complex and unreliable. Even if you think you have exactly remembered everything, things may become distorted over time. Why is our memory so bad, how can we improve this?
The science of memory has never stopped. We know that many people fight in memory in different ways. I have forgotten the goods in the canteen, but also forget their own five QQ password! Worse, you can not remember those memories of childhood, or a special classmate in college.
Everyone's memory will be different, no one has a perfect memory. Even if you feel that your memory is extraordinary, but in fact may not be the case. To understand how it works, let's start with how to remember things.
How do we remember things
The memory of mankind is complicated. For example, how do we remember the visual image? It seems very simple, when you see something, it is natural to remember. But the "scientific American" points out that this process is extremely complex:
The memory of a visual image (such as a rice bowl) is stored in visual memory. Our thinking uses visual memory to show even the simplest operation, from remembering the faces of someone we have just seen, to think of the last time we look at the watch.
What did you eat at noon? This memory will be stored in the visual working memory (visual working memory). When the brain processes the task, the visual image is temporarily stored in the visual working memory - like a whiteboard, write / erase.
So what is the reason for these memories to stay and not with the whiteboard erase and lost? A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that if you associate an image with other knowledge, it will increase your chances of remembering it later. This is why the "Atlantic magazine" pointed out that the use of image recognition to enhance memory. In essence, the more things associated with new memories, the more you can remember this information.
The process of memory:
For example, when you meet someone, your visual system will "register" the physical characteristics of Ta; the auditory system will "collect" the laughter of Ta; you may also notice the perfume of Ta. Experts believe that the hippocampus and frontal cortex will analyze these different sensory inputs and decide whether they are worth remembering. If so, they may become part of your long-term memory. Then, these different pieces of information will be stored in different locations on the brain. When recalling, this process is the process of extracting information from long-term memory to working memory.
To be correct to the memory code, you have to stay focused. Because we can not focus all day, so most of the things every day will be filtered out, leaving only a few stimuli to enter your consciousness ... ... so, your focus is how much you can remember Key factor.
Memory is unreliable
Can not fully believe in their own memories, which is probably well known. We have had this moment, remember a certain detail, forget some things, even fictitious. The reason is simple, our memory is not always reliable, because the memory is about perception.
Memory is affected by various factors. According to the "Scientific American", it is easy to give people the wrong memory to implant the wrong memory. The most shocking is that we often remember some of the details. The witnesses' testimony is notoriously unreliable. As Smithsonian magazine points out, the memory of major events is consistently inaccurate:
Many people have the so-called flash memory (flashbulb memories) - the occurrence of important events (such as a country's president assassination, an earthquake), people can not only remember the incident, but also remember the event is not directly related to the information, Such as where he was, where he was, and what he was doing. But these clear, specific memories, psychologists have found that they are staggering inaccurate.
Nader, a neuroscientist from McGill University, says he has been fooled by the memory of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. He recalled on September 11th that the first plane in the TV screen hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. But he was surprised to learn that this picture premiere was the day after 911. Obviously, he was not the only one: a 2003 study found that 569 college students, 73% of whom had made the same mistake.
"Experimental Psychology" magazine pointed out that we tend to think that they can remember very important things. For example, you have a wonderful idea, but did not write down, you feel sure you can remember this great idea, the results of a glass of water time, this idea gone. This kind of thing will happen to everyone, sometimes we are too confident of their own memory.
How to improve memory
Regular exercise
We know that exercise affects the brain in a positive way, but exercise can also improve memory and learning ability you know?
The effect of exercise on memory is extremely complex. The New York Times, Behavioral Neuroscience, the American Society of Gerontology, and the Journal of Aging have published articles that show that exercise plays an important role in improving memory.
Liu-Ambrose, an assistant professor at the University of Columbia's Brain Science Research Center, says: All the latest studies have shown that the best brain health needs to be combined with aerobic training and strength training. Liu-Ambrose found in her study that people who carry out strength training, attention and association memory test capabilities will be improved. And aerobic training in the sense of balance, flexibility and heart function is improved.
In essence, exercise can improve our cognitive ability. It enhances our memory storage and retrieval capabilities. Better shape our brains, have a stronger memory.
sleep tight
Most people have heard that sleep plays an important role in memory. Now let's take a look at how this works in the end. Robert Stickgold, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explains:
Some stages of sleep help to form different types of memory. Declarative memory (matters and knowledge) is enhanced by slow wave sleep (deep sleep), and implicit memory is enhanced by rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) - no need for conscious thinking, such as cycling, skating memory. In essence, the higher the quality of your sleep, the better your memory.
The New York Times analyzed the importance of sleep and memory:
Lack of sleep on our potential impact include: learning, memory, judgment, solve problems and so on. Sleep, the brain will be the new learning and memory path encoding, to make this process smoothly, the need for adequate good sleep. People with plenty of sleep are better able to learn new tasks and are more likely to remember what they have learned. Older, cognitive decline, in part because of long-term sleep is not good.
Memory skills
The memory needs some regular maintenance and a little training to keep it in good condition. You can not just rely on learning to improve your memory, you can also use some skills. In the past we have heard a lot of ways to improve memory, here I list a few:
Blocked memory method: a long message into several groups to remember. For example, remember a cell phone number 13012309678, can be divided into 130-1230-9678 three parts to remember.
Combining information with exaggerated images: When you need to remember a specific set of details, it is relatively straightforward to use this method to complete it. The more you imagine the more ridiculous the picture, the easier it is to remember. For example, you need to buy milk in the supermarket, bananas and knives, you can think of, a giant banana holding a knife to chase a cow, want to break the milk. Is it a great sense of picture?
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Use the memory prompt system (the corresponding method): This is a bit complicated to say, first of all need to recite the following verse: "aunt, two ears, three mountains, four monasteries, five things, six Liu, seven wives, eight dad, nine wine, ten stone "Just again that example, go to the supermarket to buy bananas, milk and knives. The first item of banana and "aunt" corresponds, imagine aunt eating bananas. And so on, come to "aunt eat banana, ear knife, the mountains have cattle", as long as you remember the verse, will think of the corresponding items.
Improve your observation and perception: you will only remember what you notice. So, if you want to improve your memory, then you need to focus on the moment. Carefully observe the world and establish a connection between new things and the experience you already have. According to the Journal of Neuroscience, we note that the more we value a memory, the more likely it is to stay.
Nap: We have already mentioned the positive impact of sleep on memory, even the nap has the same effect. A good nap can not only improve memory and learning ability, but also in the case of lack of sleep to add sleep.
The memory is peculiar and works in a peculiar way. Although sometimes not too reliable, but we still have to rely on it. Science is still studying the best way to improve memory, but for now, there seems to be nothing better than good sleep and exercise.
The science of memory has never stopped. We know that many people fight in memory in different ways. I have forgotten the goods in the canteen, but also forget their own five QQ password! Worse, you can not remember those memories of childhood, or a special classmate in college.
Everyone's memory will be different, no one has a perfect memory. Even if you feel that your memory is extraordinary, but in fact may not be the case. To understand how it works, let's start with how to remember things.
How do we remember things
The memory of mankind is complicated. For example, how do we remember the visual image? It seems very simple, when you see something, it is natural to remember. But the "scientific American" points out that this process is extremely complex:
The memory of a visual image (such as a rice bowl) is stored in visual memory. Our thinking uses visual memory to show even the simplest operation, from remembering the faces of someone we have just seen, to think of the last time we look at the watch.
What did you eat at noon? This memory will be stored in the visual working memory (visual working memory). When the brain processes the task, the visual image is temporarily stored in the visual working memory - like a whiteboard, write / erase.
So what is the reason for these memories to stay and not with the whiteboard erase and lost? A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that if you associate an image with other knowledge, it will increase your chances of remembering it later. This is why the "Atlantic magazine" pointed out that the use of image recognition to enhance memory. In essence, the more things associated with new memories, the more you can remember this information.
The process of memory:
For example, when you meet someone, your visual system will "register" the physical characteristics of Ta; the auditory system will "collect" the laughter of Ta; you may also notice the perfume of Ta. Experts believe that the hippocampus and frontal cortex will analyze these different sensory inputs and decide whether they are worth remembering. If so, they may become part of your long-term memory. Then, these different pieces of information will be stored in different locations on the brain. When recalling, this process is the process of extracting information from long-term memory to working memory.
To be correct to the memory code, you have to stay focused. Because we can not focus all day, so most of the things every day will be filtered out, leaving only a few stimuli to enter your consciousness ... ... so, your focus is how much you can remember Key factor.
Memory is unreliable
Can not fully believe in their own memories, which is probably well known. We have had this moment, remember a certain detail, forget some things, even fictitious. The reason is simple, our memory is not always reliable, because the memory is about perception.
Memory is affected by various factors. According to the "Scientific American", it is easy to give people the wrong memory to implant the wrong memory. The most shocking is that we often remember some of the details. The witnesses' testimony is notoriously unreliable. As Smithsonian magazine points out, the memory of major events is consistently inaccurate:
Many people have the so-called flash memory (flashbulb memories) - the occurrence of important events (such as a country's president assassination, an earthquake), people can not only remember the incident, but also remember the event is not directly related to the information, Such as where he was, where he was, and what he was doing. But these clear, specific memories, psychologists have found that they are staggering inaccurate.
Nader, a neuroscientist from McGill University, says he has been fooled by the memory of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. He recalled on September 11th that the first plane in the TV screen hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. But he was surprised to learn that this picture premiere was the day after 911. Obviously, he was not the only one: a 2003 study found that 569 college students, 73% of whom had made the same mistake.
"Experimental Psychology" magazine pointed out that we tend to think that they can remember very important things. For example, you have a wonderful idea, but did not write down, you feel sure you can remember this great idea, the results of a glass of water time, this idea gone. This kind of thing will happen to everyone, sometimes we are too confident of their own memory.
How to improve memory
Regular exercise
We know that exercise affects the brain in a positive way, but exercise can also improve memory and learning ability you know?
The effect of exercise on memory is extremely complex. The New York Times, Behavioral Neuroscience, the American Society of Gerontology, and the Journal of Aging have published articles that show that exercise plays an important role in improving memory.
Liu-Ambrose, an assistant professor at the University of Columbia's Brain Science Research Center, says: All the latest studies have shown that the best brain health needs to be combined with aerobic training and strength training. Liu-Ambrose found in her study that people who carry out strength training, attention and association memory test capabilities will be improved. And aerobic training in the sense of balance, flexibility and heart function is improved.
In essence, exercise can improve our cognitive ability. It enhances our memory storage and retrieval capabilities. Better shape our brains, have a stronger memory.
sleep tight
Most people have heard that sleep plays an important role in memory. Now let's take a look at how this works in the end. Robert Stickgold, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explains:
Some stages of sleep help to form different types of memory. Declarative memory (matters and knowledge) is enhanced by slow wave sleep (deep sleep), and implicit memory is enhanced by rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) - no need for conscious thinking, such as cycling, skating memory. In essence, the higher the quality of your sleep, the better your memory.
The New York Times analyzed the importance of sleep and memory:
Lack of sleep on our potential impact include: learning, memory, judgment, solve problems and so on. Sleep, the brain will be the new learning and memory path encoding, to make this process smoothly, the need for adequate good sleep. People with plenty of sleep are better able to learn new tasks and are more likely to remember what they have learned. Older, cognitive decline, in part because of long-term sleep is not good.
Memory skills
The memory needs some regular maintenance and a little training to keep it in good condition. You can not just rely on learning to improve your memory, you can also use some skills. In the past we have heard a lot of ways to improve memory, here I list a few:
Blocked memory method: a long message into several groups to remember. For example, remember a cell phone number 13012309678, can be divided into 130-1230-9678 three parts to remember.
Combining information with exaggerated images: When you need to remember a specific set of details, it is relatively straightforward to use this method to complete it. The more you imagine the more ridiculous the picture, the easier it is to remember. For example, you need to buy milk in the supermarket, bananas and knives, you can think of, a giant banana holding a knife to chase a cow, want to break the milk. Is it a great sense of picture?
194049384115247696.png
Use the memory prompt system (the corresponding method): This is a bit complicated to say, first of all need to recite the following verse: "aunt, two ears, three mountains, four monasteries, five things, six Liu, seven wives, eight dad, nine wine, ten stone "Just again that example, go to the supermarket to buy bananas, milk and knives. The first item of banana and "aunt" corresponds, imagine aunt eating bananas. And so on, come to "aunt eat banana, ear knife, the mountains have cattle", as long as you remember the verse, will think of the corresponding items.
Improve your observation and perception: you will only remember what you notice. So, if you want to improve your memory, then you need to focus on the moment. Carefully observe the world and establish a connection between new things and the experience you already have. According to the Journal of Neuroscience, we note that the more we value a memory, the more likely it is to stay.
Nap: We have already mentioned the positive impact of sleep on memory, even the nap has the same effect. A good nap can not only improve memory and learning ability, but also in the case of lack of sleep to add sleep.
The memory is peculiar and works in a peculiar way. Although sometimes not too reliable, but we still have to rely on it. Science is still studying the best way to improve memory, but for now, there seems to be nothing better than good sleep and exercise.
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