I have wondered about memory and memories since I was a kid. What if I want to remember not knowing how to talk, or how I learned how to ride a bike to teach my child some day, or what happened in our United States history? I think that the best thing you can research is something you've been wanting an answer to for a long time. I also thing that it will be beneficial to me to learn more about how our brain works, since it's such a complex thing, and it's a topic with endless information and exploring. Some of the questions I would like to answer are:
- Why is it that I store some memories, but not others?
- Why do I only remember some dreams?
- In what part of the brain are memories stored?
- How does storing memories work?
- Are there ways I can recover my memories or dreams?
- Is there any way that I can improve my memory?
I can answer the last question briefly: you bet. This semester I've been practicing techniques I got from a book and they do work. Check it out:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do.html
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI'm taking Psychology this semester, and the chapter we just finished had a whole section about why we have dreams and why we only remember some of them.
Score!