Posts Tagged ‘development’
Memory Development – Grasping New Information
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Business on July 22nd, 2010
The human mind is in a constant state of grasping new information, learning new things and perceiving new ideas. Our daily life teaches us so many experiences that it goes on accumulating in our minds. We learn from our daily lives. What we see, hear and speak becomes a learning experience for all of us. It is aptly said that a mind not evolving is equal to a mind ready to die. As we age, our tendency to retain what we learn diminishes.
The key factor to be in a condition of mental youth is the possession of a good memory. Memory plays the most vital role in our development of mental, emotional and social self. It is important to start exercising our mind to build up our memory from a very early age. Every human being is bestowed with two forms of memory- logical and symbolic. The tendency to have an inclination towards either is purely natural.
The logical memory is governed by the left lobe of the brain and the symbolic memory is governed by the right lobe. In order to develop the memory in the right way, it is important to asses which type of memory is your strong point. Studies show that people who can memorize things by watching images and by hearing sounds posses a stronger symbolic memory. Those who can learn better by reading have a stronger logical memory. In order to develop a symbolic memory one must make associations with other inputs from one’s memory to have a quicker retaining of the fact. For the logically inclined, it is always a good option to read as much as possible. Reading vastly improves the memory development process in people possessing a logical memory.
In order to do that, bed reading is a great exercise. Reading for thirty minutes before going to bed improves the concentration span and also enhances memory development. For the symbolically inclined, associating a sound with an image or movement or vice-versa can do wonders in memory development. It is a simple but assured way of stimulating the memory development process.
Our subconscious also plays a vital role in the memorizing of an entity. It is in this sphere that we make the first impression of a stimulus and then the mind registers it in the active memory. A few exercises described below will go a long way in honing the skills of memory building. Noticing the things around with care and detail is important. You should start this form of exercise with something you are not interested in. it will be boring initially but soon you will develop the habit of keen observation around you making it easier to grasp things.
Pick up an object or an image which looks mundane to you and closely observe it, you will soon find that you are developing a new interest in that thing and actually retaining something which you normally would not. It is also important to eliminate distractions while memorizing something. It is a scientifically proved fact that the human mind can only process only one kind of information at a given point of time. Therefore, music playing in the background while studying is not a good option. Your mind will be alternating between the topic being memorized and the music being played. Motivation is also a key factor in memory development. If you are not motivated to learn something, you are most likely to forget it soon.
It has been truly said that a person loses his or her individuality when the memory loses. Imagine yourself in your old age and people sitting around and because of memory loss you are not able to remember their names. How awkward would it sound? Hence, we must agree that the human memory plays an important role. It is necessary for keeping one self in a healthy condition so that the memory remains in a perfect condition.
Keeping these points in mind we must try to develop our memory at all times to keep us mentally healthy even when we reach old age. A person should live all his life healthy and must remain active till his or her death.
Stephen C Campbell (Master NLP Practitioner) has published more information on Developing Memory and mastering your life at
http://www.memorydevelopmentmastery.com
Memory Development And The Brain
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Business on July 16th, 2010
Our brain gets a signal from the various parts of our body through what are called are sensors. The tips of the sensors are known as synapses. These synapses send millions of electrical impulses through our body. Slowly these become the basis of memory development. In neuro sciences, scientists are busy studying how part of our brains are working. Well some scientists believe that we are utilizing only 10% of our brains. This may or may not be true. But as we grow older, our powers to retain and assimilate and develop memory increase. This is also known as memory development. This is the reason that a 10 year has better memory skills than a toddler.
The brain has billions of neurons and these are connected through a network. Our brain is very active and it derives its stimulation of the billions of signals that are passing through these networks. Memory development or thought processes are not contained in a single neuron, but rather on the network. We use both the left and the right part of our brain for our daily functioning and memory development. Certain work such as logical reasoning, associations, math is done by the left side of the brain. While the right side of the brain gives us our language skills. One without the other would be useless. Everyday, we are been exposed to multitude of stimulants, that we absorb, retain and form a part of our memories. Thus constantly making our brains undergo the process of memory development.
Some people seem to have photographic memory. They seem to have a huge cache of memory capacity. The ability to look and quickly grasp and retain in memory is truly amazing. These extraordinary people are rare and few between. Scientists who have studied these individuals have found that they have undergone the process of memory development using some strategies. These memory development strategies can vary from individual to another individual. All individuals are born with different memory capacity storage. However studies and research has shown that all individuals can benefit from taking the right kind of training to enhance the memory capacity prowess. This means that our memory development, retention and retrieval become more efficient. Isn’t this what every person wants. Memory development Strategies to make the memory more efficient can differ from person to person.
As we grow older, we become “forgetful”. The reason has been that we have not used our knowledge for a long time. Scientists studying nueropsychology are just beginning to understand the various workings of the grey matter. The retrieval time takes longer. This certainly doesn’t mean that our memory storage capacity has been lost. In our twenties, information is been used more frequently therefore the bouts of forgetfulness are far less. These are also known as “memory blocks”. At a younger age our memory development is faster since we are utilizing our brains more.
As we get older, the episodes of “memory blocks” get increased as we age. But the process of memory development is till going on in our brains. Some people think that frequent episodes of memory block may lead to Alzheimer’s disease. This is certainly not the case. Research has however found that those individuals (above 50 years) of age who participate in some sort of mental activity such as doing crosswords, solving word puzzles, solving sudoku and other such games of logical reasoning remain sharper than those individuals who don’t.
Over a lifetime, an individual will have varied memories and the memory development can happen various speeds too. These are stored somewhere in the brain. If the brain is physically damaged, then many memories may simply be destroyed. Else the memory will be stored in some corner. If the memories have not been used for a considerable amount of time, then it might take a long time to retrieve that information. When memory is backed up on what is known as “long term memory” it has to pass through “working memory”.
If the memory has not been encoded properly during the “working memory” phase, then that information may get lost. This is a part and parcel of memory development sometimes we get a vague feeling, that we may have experienced this before. This vague feeling comes from information been there but not encoded properly, thus it can’t be retrieved when it’s required.
It’s never too old to learn. Our brain is a working horse which is going through the process of memory development with each stimulation that we receive. It’s a fact that memory prowess begins to decline after a person hits their mid forties, but scientists have yet to truly understand the effects of age on memory. This is as complex as talking about memory itself. For this reason, some tasks may be better suited to a twenty year old and some tasks may be better performed by a sixty year old.
Given the same training, both can match each other in their wits and memory skills. No wonder you have the saying “Cunning Old Man”.
Stephen C Campbell (Master NLP Practitioner) has published more information on Developing Memory and mastering your life at
http://www.memorydevelopmentmastery.com
Memory Development – We All Can Do It
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Business on July 16th, 2010
Remembering the innocence of your childhood, the freedom that you had in playing all day around and the chocolates and candies that you use to eat are certainly part of your wonder years. This is when the crucial stages of memory development takes place. But how are these images accessible to you even in ones adults’ years when people struggle how to memorize things. Well these images are accessible to you through the process of memory development which includes both the use of long term memory and short term memory.
Obviously these images are stored in your mind from which you can access the large database of your brain. But this database is infinite, as unlike computer systems that have standard data storage, the brain has an infinite amount of data storage where we memorize things. In fact the study of the brain which is called neurology has found out new mechanisms of how memory functions in the brain.
Memory is the ability to store, retain and recall information, your ability to do this is based upon both your long term memory and short term memory. These three processes are necessary to follow each other in succession for efficient memory development. Unlike other organisms humans have a more complex brain structure which enables us to accomplish complex tasks through the learning that we have inherited. This learning is accessible to you through the information that was stored in your mind which is crucial to memory development.
It might just seem a split of a second to remember someone’s name. But your neurons have responded to the immediate demand that your brain had made. But that split second is the result of complex memory functions that your brain has undergone to retrieve that name. Let’s zoom in to these memory development processes and make a schematic study of them.
Neuro science has discovered that processes of short-term memory and long-term memory (episodic memory) as the main types of memories. Now while retrieving your friends name as it was discussed above, does your brain utilize short-term or long-term memory? Certainly-long term memory as the name of your friend that you are trying to access has been constantly revised through your brain which has led to the name being stored in the long term memory.
With this description of the mechanism of memory development it becomes important to elaborate as to how the short and long-term memory actually operates. Firstly your senses absorb all the physical stimulations that you receive in terms of sight, smell, tactile and other senses. In fact the brain registers the sensory information for just 200-500ms. This registration of sensory memory in the brain is crucial so as to differentiate between the different stimuli that the brain receives.
Photographic memory is in fact registered through the sight and its ability to retain itself depends upon how long you have paid attention to the stimulus. Once the sensory memory is registered in the brain it depends on how much attention an individual pays to the sensory information so that now it can be registered in the short term memory which will enhance memory development.
The short term memory stores information if sensory information has been rehearsed by the brain – a key element of memory development. The information that is stored is only for 5 seconds. Individuals don’t feel the effect of the information that is remembered as this information is not properly rehearsed.
The memory capacity of short term memory is 7+/-2. This means that short term memory can store more than 7 items at one time in its storage or 2 less. To be more elaborate, recent neuropsychological research has revealed that humans can store up to 5 items in their short term memory. If adequate attention is still maintained for a few minutes more then the information will be retained in the long term memory which would lead to memory development.
Once the stimulus gets retained in the long term memory one has a better sense of remembering the name which could be an audio or visual register. This transition of short term memory information into long-term memory takes place in the hippocampus, which is a region in the brain that regulates memory development. The memory development capacity of long-term memory is infinite. In fact if one was to tell the entire life story the entire lists of names and events that have occurred will depend upon how the person is able to retrieve it.
Therefore memory development is the most dynamic aspects to configuring an effective mind. It is the basis through which individuals gain consciousness without which one won’t live a positive and happy life.
Stephen C Campbell (Master NLP Practitioner) has published more information on Developing Memory and mastering your life at
http://www.memorydevelopmentmastery.com
