Your Memory Rewrites The Past Based On Present Experiences

MessageToEagle.com – Memory is crucial for us and it’s a source of knowledge, but it’s also one of the most fascinating mysteries known to man.
Many aspects of memory are widely debated among cognitive psychologists.

Capacity of human memory varies from person to person but we all need it to store indispensable data about objects, persons and specific environment.

This gives us power to stay connected with the external world.

The way memory works is connected with certain parts of the brain like the frontal lobe, the temporal lobe, the cortex, and the hippocampus, working together, these parts of the brain allow us to formulate and store information in the form of memories.
Recent important study indicates that your memory is no video camera. It edits the past with present experiences.

Rather, the memory rewrites the past with current information, updating your recollections with new experiences.

“When you think back to when you met your current partner, you may recall this feeling of love and euphoria,” said lead author Donna Jo Bridge, a postdoctoral fellow in medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

“But you may be projecting your current feelings back to the original encounter with this person.”

The study shows how memory is faulty and how it can insert things from the present into memories of the past when those memories are retrieved.
It also shows the exact point in time when that incorrectly recalled information gets implanted into an existing memory.

“Our memories adapt to an ever-changing environment and help us deal with what’s important now,” said Bridge. “Your memory reframes and edits events to create a story to fit your current world. It’s built to be current.”

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All that editing happens in the hippocampus, the new study found. The hippocampus, in this function, is the memory’s equivalent of a film editor and special effects team.

“The notion of a perfect memory is a myth,” said Joel Voss, senior author of the paper and an assistant professor of medical social sciences and of neurology at Feinberg. “Everyone likes to think of memory as this thing that lets us vividly remember our childhoods or what we did last week.”

“But memory is designed to help us make good decisions in the moment and, therefore, memory has to stay up-to-date. The information that is relevant right now can overwrite what was there to begin with.”
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