Short-term memory and long-term memory.

I remember how one of my teachers liked to repeat phrase that if you say the truth, you do not need to remember anything. Later it turned out for me that these words she did not herself invented, but it was quoted by the famous writer M. Twain. Although this was just a lesson that we would not lie, but this time focus better on the second part of the phrase – do not remember anything. With that I would dare to argue. At current time when the flow of information is increasing, even though a large part of it we put into  information systems, and all the details of the agenda often we recall only thanks to smart technology, memory anyway is an essential human characteristic, which is an integral part of learning.

What we know about memory? We know that human’s obtained information initially is stored in the short memory. This memory is used for instance in phone calls, looking at the number in the phone book. The amount of this memory is small, duration – seconds or minutes. After all, we forget many fascinating faces of passers-by, sometimes even names of people, or facts from the news that we are not used.

Short-term and long-term memory is different. Short-term memory is easily terminated. Long-term memory is more stable and less vulnerable. Information to the long-term memory is transferred from the short-term. The transfer is facilitated by the practice. Not for nothing is said that repetition is the mother of knowledge. Short-term conversion to long-term memory requires new protein synthesis, thus it is important satiated food for the memory maintaining.

Often people are calling the memory as some kind of blog where you can always find what you search for. Various studies show that learning and memory mechanisms are common as learning is related to our memory. It would be interesting to know what researches could say how some diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, change in our memory mechanism.

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