540 likes | 761 Views
“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”. - Samuel Johnson. Can you remember something you probably see every day?. Describe the front of a penny…. Lincoln facing to the right “Liberty” “In God We Trust” the year it was minted. Memory factoids.
E N D
“The true art of memory is the art of attention.” - Samuel Johnson
Can you remember something you probably see every day? Describe the front of a penny…
Lincoln • facing to the right • “Liberty” • “In God We Trust” • the year it was minted
Memory factoids • The hippocampus (“seahorse”-shaped) brain area is probably the brain’s “switchboard” – injuries to it cause you to lose your ability to acquire new memories • Hand gestures can help us retrieve elusive words from their memories • There is a biological intersection of music and memory in your brain that links music – not other sound – to short and long-term memory • Humans seem to remember even from in utero – especially their mother’s voice • Females generally have better memories for all kinds of details
People remember:20% 0f what they hear75% of what they see90% of what they do
“I hear and I forget,I see and I remember,I do and I understand.”old Chinese proverb
All forest animals, to this very day, remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard Bambi’s mother had been shot.
“Flashbulb” Memories • The intensity freezes the memory • They are not always solid – President Bush said he’d seen the 1st plane hit the World Trade Center on 9-11, but actually nobody saw that on live TV; he was speaking from shock • Personal life experiences that seem to transform our brains into virtual cameras: • Defensive arousal (car crash, armed robbery) • Threat to self-esteem or social position (pants fell down, fired from a job) • Related to sex and reproduction (your first kiss)
When you can’t remember where (or if!!) you “filed” the information
The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon • What do you call trees that shed leaves? • What makes blood red? h-------- • What’s the 2nd stomach in a bird? g------- • A stone with crystals inside? g---- • Best actor this year? D--------
Information is made more symmetrical or is coached • Smythe Smith • Y • Did your Mommy lose you at the mall? • Eyewitness testimony
Read: read, pages, letters, school, study, reading, stories, sheets, cover, pen, pencil, magazine, paper, words
Read this one: house, pencil, apple, shoe, book, flag, rock, train, ocean, hill, music, water, glass, school Which of these words were on the 1st slide?
read, pages, letters, school, study, reading, stories, sheets, cover, pen, pencil, magazine, paper, words house, pencil, apple, shoe, book, flag, rock, train, ocean, hill, music, water, glass, school
Parapaxis – noun. “beyond” + “act”slip of the tongueA Freudian slip is like saying one thing, but meaning your mother (oops)
Old information interferes with getting the new; new interferes with holding onto the old old facts NEW facts
Information gets crowded ou
It’s going to get easier…
Were there only15?!
Were there only15?!
Find the pattern & you can add 9 more to make 24 digits:149162536496481100121144
A gigantic visual hint: 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 121 144