What happened when you tried to remember ...

The ability to remember is a huge difference in each individual. What happens when you try to remember something? What stages happen when you receive a certain information?

Most of us will have difficulty answering this question. Kirchhoff and Buckner used various special coding processes to describe the stages of memory, as well as how those processes affect the expression of memory, and the brain worked. How to bring that result. This study by two authors at the University of Washington, USA published in the journal Neuron, volume 51, 2006, July.

The study participants were asked to look at each pair of two things interacting with each other - such as a banana in a truck - and then they would be checked by answering questions about what they were remember about that image. While viewing and memorizing images, their brain activity was investigated by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Later, these images were used to identify the stages in the process of remembering information.

Among the test participants, each individual's coding process varies greatly. There are two processes that the author calls the 'verbal elaboration' process and 'visual inspection' (visual inspection) related to memory expression when trying to recall things. The process of ' imaginary imagery' (mental imagery) and 'memory retrieval' is not related to this expression. In addition, individuals with the greatest number of different coding processes give the best memory performance results. Subsequent analyzes show that ' verbal description ' and ' visual observation ' are independent of each other in the process of improving memory.

When using the data of memory processes and the results of brain imaging, the author discovered the process of visual memory to the activity of different regions of the brain. The process of ' verbal description ' is related to the activity of the area that governs the process of word formation located in the frontal forehead. While the ' visual observation ' process is related to the activity of the recognition area located in the cortex of many wrinkles. Finally, the team investigated whether the activity of the brain regions in memory encoding is related to the expression of memory. Survey results are the same as they predicted. Brain activity involving two processes of encoding words and images is related to success in recalling.

This result sheds light on how each person uses different processes, as well as different parts of the brain, to perform, solve the same thing, a problem. Researching memory coding processes with functional images of the brain explains the difference in each person's ability to remember. In addition, this study also helps to understand how to recognize, express memory and improve memory.

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