People have extraordinary memories

If our memory is truly digitized, it will be an improved floppy version, not just a moment's ability.

The experiment showed that participants memorized most of the previously viewed objects.Photo: LiveScience.

A new US study finds that the brain can remember much more than we thought.

In one experiment, 14 volunteers aged 18 to 40 saw nearly 3,000 paintings of objects for more than 5 hours, distinguishing images of similar objects such as remote controls, dollar bills and loaves. Noodle. Eventually they can remember amazingly every detail about most of them.

"For an example, after watching thousands of objects, participants not only remember the drawers they saw, but also the open door doors," said an author.

Although previous works have never measured such extraordinary memory capacity, it could simply be that no one really tried.

A motivation is considered to have boosted this memory ability, according to experts, it is the regulation that the person scoring the highest score will receive a small reward.

"You have to try. You have to try to remember," said Talia Konkle, co-author of the study from MIT.

According to the authors, basically, we can remember almost everything that is dropped into our heads, if there is enough attention and try to remember it for the first time.