Summary: The Mystery Of Memory

   Over the centuries it was interesting to know what memory is and how to improve it. The first discoveries were made about long-term and short-term memory.

   The human brain contains 100 billion nerve cells and each can make up to 100000 connections with cells, which are close to. When a new memory is created, a new connection springs there.

   Memory includes recovering factors, for instance, procedural memory explains how to do something, while declarative memory describes that, for example, something with all its components is called a bicycle or something else.

   There are also other interesting phenomenons about memory. For instance, recognition versus recall. It's very hard to recall faces when actually it's easy to recognize them when you see them. It's difficult to remember more than 15, for example, photos after seeing them, but when a person sees them, he or she can recognize them and the amount could reach 10000 or even more.

   The one more sort of memory is photographic memory. Children who are less than age eight can remember snapshot-like fragments, associated with smells or tastes of colours. Most of us lose this ability when grow up.

   There are some strategies to remember forgotten things. It's easier way to retrieve information by remembering things about the situation or person's name we want to remember. We can give some questions for ourselves, for example, 'Where I met that person?' or 'Why I was in that situation?' And the main point is that every factor is stored in different area of the brain.

   To conclude, neuroscientists still try to discover what is the bond between brain processes and brain regions that lets us know everything properly.

References:http://beamazinglearning.wordpress.com/tag/working-memory/ (looked at 2012.04.09.)

http://editastonciute.blogspot.com/2010/11/mystery-of-memory.html (looked at 2012.04.09.)
Longman. "Focus On Advanced English C.A.E.", Series editor Sue O'Connell, 2007