The care of our health is necessary at any stage of life, and not only physical health, since memory is as important as age. But just as we can strengthen our muscles and fitness, there are also ways to correct our memory and not forget the most important things.
So the neuroscientist Elizabeth Kensinger and the neurologist Andrew Budson gave The Harvard Gazette some ideas on how to do that, not forgetting the most important things.
As they explain, memories usually occur when an error occurs at any of the different levels that allow us to access their memory, to write it down, to store it, and to recall it. In this sense, Kesinger points out that “getting enough sleep is one of the most important things we can do.”
Although many believe that forgetting something is bad, it is true that “your forgetting is important”, because if we were to try to predict the future or understand what is happening now, we would have to sift through everything that happened to us. it would be ineffective.” “He knows.
But in order to make sure that we remember the most relevant things, we can follow the process in four steps, represented in FOUR Mnemonic characters, which allows us to encode information in memory more easily. These four steps consist: first, pay attention; secondly, to organize information; thirdly, understand the information; and finally refer to something else that we already know.
They note, “easier said than done.” “Often when someone says, I went to a party, and I met all these people whose names I don’t remember. It was a wreck early on, I wasn’t paying enough attention,” explains Kesinger. “At the time of retrieval we can also have mistakes. Every student has experienced this when they know the content but cannot remember it in the test. Or when you are looking for someone’s face and you know it. The name of that person, but you can’t remember it immediately then: This is when for the answers trying to generate possible, we could use common retrieval cues, like thinking about the last time you saw a person, context, possible. guests.”
aging memory
The need for memory increases with age, as “aging, the transition to the brain is the highest priority of the event. The brain receives similarities of events rather than trying to hang on to each event. That can lead to a lot of frustrations with memory, and it can also make us to some types of memory distortions or to a false memory, where we think something has happened, but something is slightly different.
Despite everything, the neuroscientist adds “it is also important to note that there are some advantages to this transition”. First of all, Budson points out that, at any age, there is nothing wrong with externalizing your memory or using memory aids.
