My mother was at a neurologist a couple<div>of months ago, and I asked one of the staff</div><div>about this. Apparently short term memory</div><div>is related to a couple of small areas of the</div><div>brain, whereas long term memory is </div>
<div>distributed more broadly. This seems to</div><div>be why the older, and those with Alzheimer's,</div><div>and the rest of us for that matter, can remember</div><div>many details of our youth, but maybe not what</div>
<div>we had for lunch. Sleep seems to be the time</div><div>when short term memories deemed worth</div><div>keeping by the brain are turned in to long term</div><div>memories.</div><div><br></div><div>I also asked about eidetic memory - so called</div>
<div>photographic memory. Often talked about,</div><div>there apparently is no such thing. The closest</div><div>thing seems to be the memory of an idiot savant</div><div>like Kim Peek, who served as the model for </div>
<div>"Rain Man." The tradeoff is that in return for a</div><div>phenomenal memory, you can't do anything</div><div>else. No reasoning for example.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe more than people wanted to know, </div>
<div>but curious all the same.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Mike Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ironmike52@hotmail.com">ironmike52@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2">When I had my brain tumor taken out, I could not remember the first number of 4 given to me. I had short term memory of a gold fish. At the same time I could remember the directions to repair shops in the UP that I had delivered</font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> to 10 years before. Memory is a very funny thing.</font><div>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">Mike<br></font></div><div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><br></font><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt">> From: <a href="mailto:philip.robar@gmail.com" target="_blank">philip.robar@gmail.com</a><br>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:36:12 -0400<br>> To: <a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org" target="_blank">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>; <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" target="_blank">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] hacked<br>
> <br>> <br><div><div></div><div class="h5">> On Jul 27, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:<br>> <br>> > Just to go on record: I dismiss the notion that an adult human can't<br>> > trivially memorize a ten character 'random' string as total and absolute<br>
> > bull crap.<br>> > <br>> > If you have trouble memorizing a ten character string you should<br>> > immediately make an appointment with a mental health professional; soon<br>> > it will be an inability to memorize eight characters, then six<br>
> > characters, then you'll get lost finding your way home [which requires<br>> > the equivalent of terabytes of information].<br>> <br>> I'm guessing that you've never studied psychology as the level of ignorance of human cognition displayed above is staggering.<br>
> <br>> Nevertheless, yes, with appropriate effort and technique many can memorize a random string of 10 characters, but I wouldn't characterize the effort as trivial. And 10 characters would be pushing it for much of the population.<br>
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