Eliminate the concept of memory improvement

Eliminating information that is not useful will help increase people's ability to remember.

Scientists at the University of Oregon, USA, have shown that perception, or visual memory, does not depend on the amount of memory in the brain, but on the ability to remove unnecessary things.

" Until now, it was thought that people with high memory memorization had larger memory, but in fact it was dependent on filtering ability - a nervous mechanism that controlled which information to put into awareness, "said Edward Vogel, head of research.

The result will overthrow the general notion of memory ability, which assumes that how much people remember depending on the amount of information crammed into the brain once.

Vogel and the group believe that the results will lead to a better way to improve memory and enhance cognitive disorders, such as schizophrenia.

MT (Reuters)