Short-Term Memory | Why We Lose It | How to Delay the Inevitable

One thing we often forget, mainly because we haven’t learned or remembered it. Is that memory comes if several different shapes and sizes.

There are different tiers (or regions) within our 5lb mushy membrane that are responsible for different types of memory, and their amazing coordination is one of the reason we humans are lean, mean, cognitive machines. Ok, at least cognitive machines…

These two memory zones can be broken into “Short-Term Working Memory” and “Long-Term Permanent Memory” and they are governed by the Pre-Frontal Cortex and Hippocampus respectfully.

But just like any hard drive, there is a capacity to how much information the brain can hold. So over the course of millions of years an intricate system evolved where all “important” information from the day is transmitted across the neuronal wires during sleep to the hippocampus, while the minute, irrelevant information is forgotten. With our efficiency and capacity of this task being one of the reasons we humans have ended-up where we are atop the animal kingdom.

Which makes the fact that we tend to discreetly lose our working memory efficiency starting as early as middle age, alittle alarming. But this, like so many other things, is something we may be able to alter….

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