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By Jayaram V This article is incomplete. To read the complete article you
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Some things we remember for years. Some we forget quickly.
Some people leave a lasting impression
on us and we remember
them for long. But in case of some, we do not register mentally
even their names. Why is it that our memory does not always work
uniformly? Why some have better memory than others? What makes
our memory stick?
Good memory is not a special gift, except very rarely. Some
people are born with photogenic memory, also known as eidetic
memory, and recollect images and sounds with extreme accuracy.
Mentally handicapped people are sometimes endowed with
exceptional memory. So are those who can recollect perfectly
what they read or listen just after one or two attempts. But
these are exceptions.
Normally, good memory is a result of organized and conscious
effort on the part of each individual, fired by the need to know
and remember or succeed in some specific way. Remembering is
both an art and science, which can yield wonderful results
through persistent effort. Even a little practice and some
general awareness of the factors that lead to better memory
yield positive results and prove helpful.
There are two types of memory, short term and long term.
Short term memory is what you remember for a brief time and then
forget. Many tidbits of information we gather every day and
forget after a while, such as a telephone number, the name of a
person you just met or the color of the car that just passed by.
They constitute your short term memory and unless you use them
and recall them frequently, they do not become part of your long
term memory.
You long term memory is what you are able to recall even
after several days, months or years. These are strong
impressions, having alternate associations and pathways in your
neural network, which are difficult to erase. Your short term
memory is limited, where as your long term memory is almost
unlimited. Your short term memory becomes long term, if it is
retained for long and used frequently.
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