Crying Helps You Remember
If you think suppressing emotions are cool, think again. According to researchers of University of Washington and Stanford University suggest that suppressing emotions may actually hinder your ability to recall past events. During the study participants were shown a film depicting a married couple arguing. Subjects who hid their emotions during the viewing, remembered far less. Subjects also viewed slides of injured accident victims and were told personal information about each victims. The results showed that participants who suppressed their feelings recalled fewer details than the other participants.
Past Events Control Your Future Planning
Imagine a world where people are punished before committing a crime. Although it is strange, but it allows people to remember things before they happen. According to researchers posterior hippocampus is involved in future planning. Now scientists are discovering that human memory does indeed work forward. Studies show that the your past performances are more important in envisioning your future. The severely depressed patients have difficulty visualizing positive future events.
Researchers recognized that memory can construct, simulate and predict possible future events. These ongoing studies can provide new insights regarding the memory that relates to future-oriented thinking, planning, prediction and remembering intentions.
A Women Remembers Everyday Of Her Life
Jill Price is a 42-year-old California woman who can recall almost every day of your life since childhood. She first came to public attention in 2006. Her condition is known “hyperthymestic syndrome”, meaning “overdeveloped memory”, but of a very particular kind. Jill Price has no special aptitude for memorizing lists things, and she was an average student. But she remembers every single things that happened to her from her childhood very accurately.
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