Since antic Greece until today, people experience memory as some sort of storage of true copies of events, situations, experiences from the past… Once formed, those copies (memory records) forever, or at least for a long time, remain stable and constant. In short, our entire memory is envisaged as reliable and lasting image of our past and therein lies out trust in it.
How does brain memorizes things? The simple answer to this question would be that the memory on certain event is created by activation and strengthening of connections between neurons. This process of original forming of memory record is known since the seventies of the last century. It is less known what follows after that-for example, when we try to remember some event in our past-but neurologists are starting to discover molecular basics of the process of memory and forgetting.
10FACT No 10
According to a 2001 study, left-handed people have better memories. The corpus callosum in the brain aids recall and is larger in lefties.
09FACT No 9
Unless they are interested in a topic, most adults have an attention span of 20 minutes.
08FACT No 8
Most memory for adults comes from when they were aged between 15 and 25. This “reminiscence bump” can account for 60 percent of all memories.
07FACT No 7
It is possible to erase bad memories. Studies suggest beta blocker drugs interfere with the recollection of certain memories.
06FACT No 6
Short-term memory can hold up to 7 pieces of information at the same time but only for 20 seconds.
05FACT No 5
The brain´s, hippocampus plays a major role in processing memory. It declines with time – by age 80, 20 percent of it´s never cells can be lost.
04FACT No 4
The inability to recognized or remember faces is a rare type of amnesia. It is called prosopamnesia.
03FACT No 3
ALCOHOL prevents the brain from transferring information into long-term memories. This is why heavy drinker can´t remember the previous night.
02FACT No 2
Visual memory of eyewitnesses is notoriously inaccurate. Of 235 wrongful convictions in the USA, 75 percent were a result of unreliable eyewitnesses.
01FACT No 1
If the human brain was hard drive it would have up to 2.5 petabytes (2.5 million gigabytes) of storage.
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