Women remembers everything

Watch this lady, she remembers details, dates and people from 10 years ago or more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2wYcFnTkgo&feature=related

Step 2: Storage

The crux of memory is our ability to store information, without this vital step, memory would be worthless.

Storage: the retention of encoded information.

Differing Types of Storage

Sensory Memory

Short Termor

Working Memory

Long TermMemory

Sensory Memory It is the recording of

the sensory information in the memory system. (sight, feel etc.)

We remember a fleeting second of information and then its gone…if not important enough to capture.

Working or Short Term Memory Activated memory

that stores a few items briefly, such as a telephone number, then is either remembered or forgotten.

Short term memory is limited by duration and capacity.

Short Term Memory Test:

Look at the letter set of consonants.

After seeing the letter set, turn around and begin to count backwards from 100 by 2’s.

When asked, please recall the letter set. You will be asked twice.

Short Term Memory Test:

CHJ

HQM

LPX

Short Term Memory Test:

TKF

NSZ

PQG

Working or Short Term Memory

We can typically store + or – 7 items of information.

Random numbers, like telephone numbers are easier than random letters.

Life Without Short Term Memory

Imagine Life without Short Term memory.

Every moment would be new to you even though you just experienced it.

Cases of short term memory loss are rare compared to long term memory loss.

Clive Wearing has almost

no short term memory. He can only

remember the last 30-90 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDNDRDJy-vo

Differing Types of Storage

Sensory Memory

Short Termor

Working Memory

Long TermMemory

Long Term Memory

The last stage of storage is the loooooooooooong term memory stage.

It is simply the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse for your memories.

Long Term Capacity

Adult humans can store approx 1 Billion bits of information into long term memory.

We have the capacity for 1,000 to 1,000,000 times that amount!!!!!!!!!!

All of the computer memory in every computer in the world still doesn’t equal one brain.

Where are Memories Stored??? The region of the

brain that helps store memories is the hippocampus.

Think of this region as the brain’s librarian, directing memories to differing regions of the brain.