How the Brain Retains & Transfers Information by

Overview of Memory

sonjammosley — 2024-07-25 00:32:27 UTC

Memory refers to the psychological process of acquiring, storing, retaining, and retrieving information. Let's not forget that Human memory involves the ability to preserve and recover information. People often forget or misremember things so someones memory can be less than perfect.

Long Term Memory

sonjammosley — 2024-07-25 01:01:59 UTC

Long term memory often refers to the unlimited, continuing memory storage that can hold information for very long periods of time. Long term memory can be from one hour ago to a decade ago.

Short term memory refers to the brain holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for a short interval. A perfect example is if I recite a phone number to you and I recite it right back to you. This is me exercising my short term memory.

Sensory memory is a mental representation oof how events look, sound, feel, smell, and taste. It also includes long term component useful for such activities as recognizing a color or a familiar voice, or someone's favorite perfume.

The importance in educational and professional environments when dealing with memory.

sonjammosley — 2024-07-25 01:52:13 UTC

What occurs in the brain when you make a memory: the hippocampus links all of the relevant information together and encodes it into a new memory by forming new synapses. In the education world memory plays a crucial role in teaching and learning. There are three main processes that characterize how memory works. These processes are encoding, storage and retrieval. Memory applies just as much to a learner's skills, beliefs and thought processes as it does to factual learning. It is said to underpin any lasting change in thinking.

Memory

sonjammosley — 2024-07-25 01:54:32 UTC

While retention focuses on recalling information from memory in response to standard prompts, transfer focuses on the ability to apply the information in a context differently from the one in which it was originally learned.

What occurs in the brain....

sonjammosley — 2024-07-25 02:01:14 UTC

Traumatic memories get stuck in the emotional memory of the amygdala rather than reaching the hippocampus, the area of the brain that records the details – like the what, when and where of an event. So for survivors the “memory” of a trauma often emerges as a strong emotional or sensory experience. Trauma causes great strain on the brain and retention can be affected depending on the amount of trauma.

Strategies that can improve memory

sonjammosley — 2024-07-25 02:10:55 UTC

Write it down. It is as simple as that. Many people write lists or notes daily. Since times have changed people are more prone to keep a digital list but the act of writing or typing out a thought or making a list helps improve memory.

Get enough sleep. You are more likely to remember things when you have had a good nights sleep. Sleep has been consistently proven too help consolidate memories. Slow wave sleep or deep sleep is believed to be essential for improving memory.

Everyone should do some form of exersise. Moderate-intensity exercise is excellent for brain health. Not only does it impact the development of new brain cells, but multiple studies suggest that the parts of your brain responsible for thinking and memory are larger in volume in individuals who exercise regularly than those who don’t.

References

sonjammosley — 2024-07-25 02:15:25 UTC

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=brain+funcrions&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/anatomy-of-the-brain#:~:text=The%20brain%20is%20a%20complex,process%20that%20regulates%20our%20body.