Memories

"To me, neon represents memories of the past," says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the city's famous signs.

According to the first research to tackle this topic head-on, misnaming the most familiar people in our life is a common cognitive (认知的) error that has to do with how our memories classify and store familiar names.

And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from "false memories".

And most of us may sometimes feel the frustration of having old memories interfere with new, relevant memories.

Bill, for instance, often gets painful "flashbacks", in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.

In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval.

In his spare time, he visited the local art galleries, and the paintings are now lodged deep in his autobiographical memories.

Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.

Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember "autobiographical" life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random lists of words.

Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.

The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge.

The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

This process improves access to relevant information, without old memories interfering.

To his classmates and even to his teachers, he was thought of as the dumbest kid in the class, according to his own not so fond memories.

They tend to forget past unhappy memories and focus on their present needs .

Bernard Jackson is a free man today, but he has many bitter memories.

He has better memories of childhood

Of course, as most of us forget memories from our first few years as we grow older, this early long-turn memories will likely be lost in subsequent years.

We would remember a lot more if we had more confidence in our memories and knew how to use them properly.

According to sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.

I must have always known reading was very important because the first memories I have as a child deal with books.

Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date.

It's as if the brain is preserving its most important memories.

One idea is that sleep helps us strengthen new memories.

Support is growing for a theory that sleep evolved so that connections between neurons in the brain can be weakened overnight, making room for fresh memories to form the next day.

The processes take place to stop our brains becoming loaded with memories.

Their research also suggests how we may build lasting memories over time even though the synapses become thinner.

Then go outside and work out a plan to translate your childhood memories into your grown-up garden.

We have poorer memories than before.

We know that, while awake, fresh memories are recorded by reinforcing connections between brain cells, but the memory processes that take place while we sleep have been unclear.

These purchases often become more valuable with time — as stories or memories — particularly if they involve feeling more connected to others.

We rose-tint our memories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations.