Dongaonkar, Bhaktee
(2016)
We are what we remember: unravelling memories.
i wonder....
pp. 117-121.
ISSN 2582-1636
Abstract
Do you remember your first day at school? Try to
visualize what your classroom looked like. What
colour was your uniform? Who accompanied
you to school? Were you crying? What did your teacher
look like? Some of us have such a vivid memory of our
first day at school that it can make us nostalgic even
much later in life. If you cannot remember your first day
of school, just relax! There is a biological reason behind
this lapse in memory that I will explain a little later.
Try another example. Think of the best birthday you’ve
ever had. How old did you turn that year? Did you cut
a cake? What flavour was it? Do you remember the
people who were part of your birthday celebrations?
What were you wearing?
Reminiscences of the first day at school or a fun
birthday are memories of events or specific episodes in
one’s life, and are thus called episodic memories. While
significant episodes from our lives are remembered
long after, like the ones highlighted in the examples
above; insignificant ones, like what you ate for breakfast
a month ago, are soon forgotten. Episodic memories are
one kind of memory.
Are there other types of memory?
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