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by ConnorMooneyhan
916 days ago
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As someone with a terrible memory who grew up with these constant distractions around me, be it a phone or an MP3 player or what have you, I often wonder how much that contributes to my lack of substantial memory about my childhood. While it's not mentioned here, I wonder if the inverse of this finding is true; specifically, if one doesn't have time of "quiet wakefulness", are they likely to experience a larger-than-usual absence of memory? |
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* Attention and working memory: Two sides of the same neural coin? — https://research.princeton.edu/news/attention-and-working-me...
* Professor Wayne Wu (CMU) on 'Intending as practical remembering' — https://youtu.be/okk-fpwcdbY
However, this is about Working Memory. Autobiographical memory is also related to the experience of emotions:
“Much evidence indicates that emotional arousal enhances the storage of memories, thus serving to create, selectively, lasting memories of our most important experiences.”. From: Making lasting memories: Remembering the significant [pdf] — https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1301209110