Why does the brain produce memories?
Scientists speculate through theoretical calculations that the amount of information that the human brain can store is equivalent to 50 times of the 6,543,800+million books of the Library of Congress. At present, the potential of human brain is less than 20%.
So how does memory come into being? Some scientists believe that memory is related to some chemicals in the brain. Some American scientists have done this experiment. They put the mouse in a cage with a bright room and a dark room. Rats who like the dark always hide in dark rooms. Scientists have repeatedly shocked these mice and trained them to be afraid of the dark. Then, the chemicals in the brains of these mice were extracted and injected into the brains of normal mice. As a result, these mice became afraid of the dark.
Although human beings are still far from knowing themselves, we have reason to believe that one day, we can solve the mystery of memory in our brains.
What processes does brain memory need?
Step 1: Get information.
Information intake mainly includes two ways, one is watching, and the other is listening. What you see, what you hear is all you can know. Whether watching or listening, the first step is observation. Observation, reading through and understanding are the trilogy of information intake. Observation mainly depends on whether the information is words, sounds, numbers or pictures, and has a general understanding of the information; Reading through is to browse through the materials to avoid forgetting some unfamiliar words or unfamiliar information; Understanding is to turn information into familiar content. Understanding is the foundation. Only by understanding can we firmly remember and remember for a long time. Many people recite ancient poems quickly and forget them quickly. Why? Because there is no understanding. Only by understanding and combining our memory methods can we achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Step 2: process the information.
After ingesting the information, the next step is to process the information. There are two steps in processing information, one is to simplify the complex. Simplify complex information, find keywords and words, filter out some unimportant information and leave some useful information; The second is to generate images. I said before, why can't you always remember things? Because words are words when you remember them, and numbers are numbers. In fact, only by converting those alphanumeric sounds into images can we remember them better and more accurately.
Step 3: Store the information.
The stored information must be stored images, not words, numbers, etc. Before storing, we should first understand the overall structure of information. As we said, numbers have their memory methods, and words have their memory methods. Only according to the target category can we remember them in the right way.
Step 4: Extract information.
Extracting information is different from ingesting information. Intake of information is like going to the vegetable market to buy food, first buy the food you want to eat; Extracting information is like providing food. It's over. Extracting information is the most critical part of memory, and the speed and accuracy of extracting information are related to the quality of memory. It is good to extract information quickly and remember it. The slow extraction of information proves that the memory process is still problematic.
These four steps: intake, processing, storage and extraction are the four processes that constitute memory, and they are indispensable. After we ingest information, we need to process it; After processing, keep it in time and extract it quickly when necessary.
When you remember anything, you should follow this process. No one should be discouraged by bad memories of the past. You know, it's not that you can't remember, but that you know the brain and haven't mastered the methods and skills of memory yet.