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The Secrets of Your Memory

1 Why can I remember events in my childhood but not what happened last week?

We remember things 【小题1】 have strong connections in our mind, 【小题2】 (especial) emotional connections. Childhood memories are often very 【小题3】 (emotion). This is【小题4】 when we experience things for the first time, we often have strong feelings of fear or【小题5】 (excite). Also, interesting or funny stories from our childhood are often told again and again. As a result, we remember them much better, as 【小题6】 (retell) events helps fix experiences in our memories. What can we learn from all this? When 【小题7】 (remember) something new, try to connect it to our emotions. It is important【小题8】 (connect) it with what we already know. Also, we can try to retell 【小题9】 we have learnt to a few others.

2 Do some people really have a photographic memory?

A person【小题10】 a photographic memory could remember every detail of a picture, a book or an event many years later, 【小题11】 no one has proved that there are people who really have photographic memories. Yet, there are some people who do have 【小题12】 (amaze) memories. For example, Daniel Tammet can remember the first 22,514 digits of pi (π) and Stephen Wiltshire can draw a 【小题13】 (detail) picture of a city from memory after flying【小题14】 it in a helicopter. They are both good at 【小题15】 (remember) particular things for a limited time. As most of us do not have amazing memories like them, when memorising detailed learning materials, we 【小题16】 (simple) need to focus on the important ideas and be curious【小题17】 what we learn. 【小题18】 (ask) questions about what we learn also helps with memorisation. Another 【小题19】 (effect) technique to remember things is to group similar ideas or information together so that they can be easily 【小题20】 (connect) to things that are already known.

3 Why do I forget the new words that I 【小题21】 (learn) yesterday?

Don’t worry. This is natural for many people. In1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus published a book【小题22】 (call) Memory and presented a famous forgetting curve. According to him, the 【小题23】 (sharp) loss of memory occurs during the very early period after learning. This means timely review during this period, with a few revisits to what is learnt, can 【小题24】 (significant) help us to remember the information. Therefore, one of the golden 【小题25】 (rule) to increase how much we remember is to review the material periodically, especially during the first day after learning. This “spaced review” soon after learning helps build stronger memories and it is 【小题26】 (effective) than waiting to review everything before exams.

4 I’m 16, but I sometimes forget things. Is my memory getting worse?

【小题27】 (definite) not. Our memory reaches 【小题28】 (it) full power at the age of 25. At that point, we can remember up to 200 pieces of information 【小题29】 a second. After this age, however, the brain starts to get smaller. By the age of 40, we lose 10,000 brain cells every day. By middle age, our memory is significantly 【小题30】 (bad) than when we were young. So take it easy. You are at a good age 【小题31】 terms of your memory. Make good use 【小题32】 it!