That's Interesting Brain Flashcards
Senior Moments
As you age, your Hippocampus shrinks. As you know the hippocampus is the responisible organ from the Limbic system [Mammalian brain] that turns short term memory into long term memory.
With exercise and regular brain exercises, the hippocampus will actually grow as you are getting into your advanced years. Blood flow and hard memory exercises are required for this to happen. If you wish to retreive info instantly, you must conduct maintenance rehearsal for that info over and over to recall the memory instantly.
So why do the elderly have senior moments?
As we know, the hippocampus turns short term memory into long term memory. If you are 10 years old, you do not have that much info in storage. But if you are 50+, then you have 50+ years of learning and memories to keep track of where you filed a particular memory. // Since your hippocampus shrinks as you get older, and your storage memory becomes so profusely vast, it is hard for you to instantly recall a memory you have not thought about for many years!//Ergo, the hippocampus cannot instantly locate where the answer is stored inside your brain. [MN: recall memories are splattered like ketchup in a blender with the lid off. So when you are older, you cannot call upon retrival on demand. It simply cannot respond every time and every instance that quickly because it has an enormous storage area. So many times it cannot find the answer to the query. However, the correct retrival spot will hit the bulllseye later in the day or week in your subconscious mind, and you will have your answer.//Do you get it? The older you are, the more memories you have to keep track of.
Why can’t I remember the name of the person I met 5 minutes ago?
Short term memory is not a magic storage area. It is a workbench for what you are working on right now.
If you want to place a memory in long term memory you must have many rehearsal exercises to recall that memory. Then you will develop memes and neumonics to help you recall that memory.
After you put in this hard work, you will be able to recall the memory instantly.
For example, Alex Baldwin, actor. I had problems remembering his name. So I developed some nemonics to help me remember his name. i thought of Alex who works for Geri, then I thought of a popular piano, Baldwin. This always helps me think of Alex Baldwin because using the nemonic meme Alex plus the piano Baldwin, makes me thing of Alex Baldwin the actor.
The easiest way to remember a name of a person you just met is to associate an image of a person you already know with that first and last name. Then when you wish to recall the name, simply recall the nmemonics memes and you have the name. Also, for the first few minutes after meeting the person for the first time, repeat his name every time you speak to him. This will build the neuropathway to establish his name in your long term memory.
How many brains do you have?
The human being has a total of five brains. Three in his head and two in his body.
The two in the body are your stomach and your adrenal glands.
The three in your head are the lizard brain, the mammal brain and the homo sapien brain.
The lizard brain and mammal brain are the limbic brains. They are mostly your subconcious brain. Here are their duties:
- Your lizard brain: Your brain stem. Keeps you breathing, heart rate. sleeping, waking,
- Mammal brain: Your second brain. Controls the four F’s. Fighting, feeding, fleeing and reproductive behavior.
- Homo Sapien brain.
The Amygdala is responsible for both the creation of emotions and the memories they generate. All emotions love, empathy, including anger and rage. Your Amygdala is two almond sized organs at the base of your brain. Your Amygdala is what makes you think you are a real person. This is simply a confabulation story to make you feel you are inside your body making all the decisions. In reality, you can only make 5% of your life’s decisions. 95% of all decisions are made by the limbic brains, mammal and lizard. We refer to this as our subconcious.
The Hippocampus coverts short term memories into long term memories.
The thalamus controls for the senses.
The Cortex is on top of all your brains. called the human layer. This is where your memories and thinking abilities reside. Most animals do not have the cortex, ergo they cannot comprehend language or thinking ahead to a degree. For example a crow can live for 70 years. The brain of the crow is extra large for its body, as is the brain of humans.
The formula for intelligence is a larger brain in relation to subject’s body size. The dinosaurs had enormous bodies, but pea sized brains. The common crow was pea sized in body next to a dinosaur, but many times smarter than the dinosaur because it had a larger brain relative to body size.
The dinosauers domininated the earth for over 100 Million years, yet they went extinct 65 Million years ago. Yet the crow did not go extinct because of its superior brain ability. It was able to improvise to the new environment and survive to this day. Hence, the birds we have today are the dinosaurs of the past. They survived because their brains were large compared to their body mass as are our brains.
For example. You can have a large elk or buck deer and place him in an unfriendly environment and he will go extinct. You can place a homo sapien in the same enviroment and he will survive. Why? Because the homo sapient has the larger brain and can find a way to adapt for survival.
98% of all species have gone extinct because they did not have the brain capacity to adapt to the new environment.
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Alcohol Blackout brain happens when you drink too much. I inhibits your brain on forming memories. This is why after being drunk, you cannot remember hardly anything that happened while you were drunk.
Long term memories are made in your Hippocampus. They are converted from short term to long term memories in your sleep.
