Summary: The Mystery Of Memory

Memory is very mysterious thing. But its secrets are being investigated about a century from now. Psychologists were first who tried to find out memory's secret.

First of all, remembering is the process of recalling information from longer term memory to 'working memory'. Procedural memory, which is more stable, will help us to remember how, for example, to ride a bike, while declarative memory is about remembering how looks this bike.

Next distinctions - recognition and recall. All of us know that sometimes is so hard to recall someone's face and so much easier to recognize person's face you have seen before.

Photographic memory, also called 'eidetic', a lot of people have in early childhood. Snapshots and fragments associated with smell, taste or color - that is how children below the age of eight seem to remember.

How memories are made? The human brain contains from nerve cells which can connect to its neighbours. Every time when new memory is made, a new pattern of connection is created and it stores new information. Just like the moment in taped on a video recorder.

Sometimes we need to remember someone's name. And there is a list of questions which will help us to do that. For example: where did you meet that person? What was he wearing? What is the first letter of his name? What did you discuss? Nearly each of these features are stored in a different part of brain.

The aim of neuroscientists is to understand how all these different regions and brain processes are related.