Having seen a popular variety show, the program group asked all the staff to leave only six photos of the individual on their phones.
They will face challenges and each time they fail, members will be asked to delete a photo.
I have to say, this punishment than the general punishment to be ruthless, many challengers repeatedly look at the hands of fewer and fewer photos, can not bear to start.
Why is it so hard to make a decision when it is a very simple thing to do, to delete it without missing an arm or a leg?
Because each photo records the happiest moments of the challenger's life, it is the most precious memories of their lives, even in the show, they do not want to delete.
When you look at it, you can't help but wonder how good it would be if our brain could remember more of the things we want to remember and bind them into a book, like a photo in a photo album.
So, the way the human brain stores memories are really like putting photos in a photo album?
In fact, really almost.
In his book "common sense of memory", Takashi Kakimori, the first brain researcher, likens the process of brain memory to the process of library book entry, which is similar to the way photos are put in the album.
Persimmon likened the brain to a library.
The brain, the front desk of the library, is run by a staff member called the hippocampus, which processes memories in the brain. it checks the newly arrived books (that is, fragments of human memory) to decide whether to leave them in the library.
Once you decide to stay, you'll label it in a category and ship it to the appropriate bookshelf.
Books that can be put on shelves are basically long-term memories that can be recalled.
For particularly interesting“books”, “hippocampus " can clearly remember where they are stored, which is why people can easily think of those impressive things.
In the” hippocampus "next to a staff called” amygdala" (responsible for storing short-term memory), it does not participate in the custody of books and very capricious, see the favorite book on the hippocampus management.
It did not put books into the“library” of the habit, but outside the“popular bookcase”.Can be placed outside the books are easy to throw away, "amygdala" just find your favorite "book" and put it on the temporary shelves, as lost not to lose it.
In the evening, the library is closed, but the staff of the library is not working, but continue to organize the new“books", but also to put the reader out of the book back.
A simple analogy, the whole process of people to store memories clearly explained. This is one of the original intentions of Persimmon Takashi to write this book, that is, to minimize the use of jargon, to explain the best efforts to combine things in everyday life.
As a famous brain scientist in Japan, he is often invited to speak at various places.
Once he did” Brain Science of memory: how we remember and forget " lecture. I didn't expect this lecture to be popular with the general public.
So he had the idea of writing a book, hoping to tell readers how to effectively remember from the perspective of brain science.
In this book, Takaka Persimmon explains in detail the types of memory, ways to improve memory, and various types of memory.
Some people say that they always can not remember things, is it not a bad memory?
Not also, most likely you did not find the right way to fit their own memory.
Before looking for a memory method, we first look at the basis of memory.
Several types of memory
Generally speaking, human memory is divided into long-term memory and short-term memory.
Long-term memory refers to things that form memories, whereas short-term memory is the opposite.
If you want to remember more, you have to find ways to turn it into long-term memory.
As noted above, only after the hippocampus reviewed memory will become long-term memory.
So, what kind of memory is easy to be approved by the hippocampus?
The book "common sense of memory" roughly divided into three categories, namely: impressive things, significant things and often repeated things.
For something impressive, the book contains an experimental case.
The experimenter asked the young man to memorize the faces of 15 female photos in 30 seconds, and then replace the photos so he could check with the previously duplicated pictures.
The researchers found that the most remembered was not a photograph of a beautiful woman, but a funny female artist.
This is because differentiation gives a strong stimulus to the brain, making it more memorable.
As for the meaning of the important things we are also very good understanding, such as marriage and children, promotion and salary and other big moments in life, normal people can remember.
Often repeated things often apply to learn.
Especially English learning, we often write or read aloud repeatedly, so that they can become a long-term memory.
It is worth mentioning that repeated is to make short-term memory into the long-term memory of the process so in order to remember one thing that is in the heart of repeated memory, as soon as possible to transfer them from the library outside the "popular bookcase" to "library" in the library.