Remembering The Memory
By Ashiqur Rahman Adit
What’s your name? My name is _. To answer my question, information stored in your memory is recalled. This is called remembering (obviously). We practically i.e. when our heads hurt over-memorizing, or theoretically know that memory is stored in the brain. The relation of the brain with the stored memory is very complicated. But a clear understanding of it is very essential for an enhanced I.Q. Especially when you need to memorize tons of books. By visualizing the process of memory storage, you can force your brain to work harder.
Human memory is divided into mainly 2 types:
1. Long-term memory
2. Short-term memory
But today it is understood that these are the potential forms of memory. The physical form of memory is known as ‘working memory’. This is a limited, short-term store of currently relevant information that is drawn when recalling previously drawn plans. This portion of the memory is the most active in the brain and comprises of a large portion. Compare this with the R.A.M. of a computer.
The prefrontal cortex or the outermost-outer part of the frontal part of the brain (hold your head if it is spinning), or simply the part behind the forehead is now recognized as the storehouse of working memory. So, the practicality that hitting someone in the forehead erases his memory; may be true. But don’t try this at home without ones concern.
The chemistry of memory has become clear today, but conflicts have risen on how it is controlled and organized. This is because there is practically no way to study the brain. Studying the brain is difficult because research is impossible on a dissected brain, and difficulties rise when working on a living brain.
The ways to study the brain is by electrode placement or by MIR and other methods. But these are all practically guess work. They damage a part of the brain and see which functions are disabled, or they poke a thousand spikes known as electrodes to see what does what. Painful!
The long-term and short-term memories are believed to be stored all across the brain. When information is perceived, it reaches the specific region related to it e.g. olfactory for smell, optic for vision, acoustic for hearing and so on. These regions are called sensory cranial nerves.
When the decision for memorizing has been made, the region is flooded with a substance (neuromodulators).A recently discovered chemical substance called amyloidal precursor protein (APP) is released from the neuromodulators.
This stimulates the cells in your brain to leak out potassium ions out and enter sodium ions, creating an electrical impulse. This impulse is the electrical representation of the information perceived and the unique information is stored.
Before it was thought that the memory was stored inside the synapse (the joining point of one neuron with another). The speed at which memory is stored, whether it is stored or not depends on the content of APP and whether the neuron (the nerve cell) is covered with a myelin sheath or not.
APP release is determined by the neuromodulators flood. This is entirely dependant on the level of awareness. Generally 95% out of the total APP is operational at adolescent age, which is the maximum in humans. Sher-e-Bangla (he could memorize everything at first sight) probably had 100% of APP working.
Besides, the numbers of neuropaths (connections of the neurons with other neurons) affect the memorizing skill. The number of neuropaths increases with age but regular exercise builds up these paths for the information, thus giving quick excess to them. If the neurons containing info is well linked, then the brain doesn’t need to travel far. The neuropaths are like the vines of a tree, the info can be treated like a monkey, which swings across these vines; the more the vines, the faster. The ones, and twos times tables are possibly very well linked.
When we bring ‘to mind’ the name of Russia’s president, the information is temporarily copied from the long-term memory to the working memory, bringing the information into action. The info is actually carried as an impulse to the prefrontal cortex, the storehouse of working memory.
Thus, long-term memory is copied from the memory source and interpreted into application.
Again short-term memory can be transformed to long-term memory by following some techniques such as repetition, meditation, way-point-argumentation, visual reconstruction etc.
What’s your name? My name is _. To answer my question, information stored in your memory is recalled. This is called remembering (obviously). We practically i.e. when our heads hurt over-memorizing, or theoretically know that memory is stored in the brain. The relation of the brain with the stored memory is very complicated. But a clear understanding of it is very essential for an enhanced I.Q. Especially when you need to memorize tons of books. By visualizing the process of memory storage, you can force your brain to work harder.
Human memory is divided into mainly 2 types:
1. Long-term memory
2. Short-term memory
But today it is understood that these are the potential forms of memory. The physical form of memory is known as ‘working memory’. This is a limited, short-term store of currently relevant information that is drawn when recalling previously drawn plans. This portion of the memory is the most active in the brain and comprises of a large portion. Compare this with the R.A.M. of a computer.
The prefrontal cortex or the outermost-outer part of the frontal part of the brain (hold your head if it is spinning), or simply the part behind the forehead is now recognized as the storehouse of working memory. So, the practicality that hitting someone in the forehead erases his memory; may be true. But don’t try this at home without ones concern.
The chemistry of memory has become clear today, but conflicts have risen on how it is controlled and organized. This is because there is practically no way to study the brain. Studying the brain is difficult because research is impossible on a dissected brain, and difficulties rise when working on a living brain.
The ways to study the brain is by electrode placement or by MIR and other methods. But these are all practically guess work. They damage a part of the brain and see which functions are disabled, or they poke a thousand spikes known as electrodes to see what does what. Painful!
The long-term and short-term memories are believed to be stored all across the brain. When information is perceived, it reaches the specific region related to it e.g. olfactory for smell, optic for vision, acoustic for hearing and so on. These regions are called sensory cranial nerves.
When the decision for memorizing has been made, the region is flooded with a substance (neuromodulators).A recently discovered chemical substance called amyloidal precursor protein (APP) is released from the neuromodulators.
This stimulates the cells in your brain to leak out potassium ions out and enter sodium ions, creating an electrical impulse. This impulse is the electrical representation of the information perceived and the unique information is stored.
Before it was thought that the memory was stored inside the synapse (the joining point of one neuron with another). The speed at which memory is stored, whether it is stored or not depends on the content of APP and whether the neuron (the nerve cell) is covered with a myelin sheath or not.
APP release is determined by the neuromodulators flood. This is entirely dependant on the level of awareness. Generally 95% out of the total APP is operational at adolescent age, which is the maximum in humans. Sher-e-Bangla (he could memorize everything at first sight) probably had 100% of APP working.
Besides, the numbers of neuropaths (connections of the neurons with other neurons) affect the memorizing skill. The number of neuropaths increases with age but regular exercise builds up these paths for the information, thus giving quick excess to them. If the neurons containing info is well linked, then the brain doesn’t need to travel far. The neuropaths are like the vines of a tree, the info can be treated like a monkey, which swings across these vines; the more the vines, the faster. The ones, and twos times tables are possibly very well linked.
When we bring ‘to mind’ the name of Russia’s president, the information is temporarily copied from the long-term memory to the working memory, bringing the information into action. The info is actually carried as an impulse to the prefrontal cortex, the storehouse of working memory.
Thus, long-term memory is copied from the memory source and interpreted into application.
Again short-term memory can be transformed to long-term memory by following some techniques such as repetition, meditation, way-point-argumentation, visual reconstruction etc.