Memory Stages

Actually, we have three different types of memories. Is may litter sensory memory which involve sensory impressions, or short term memory which puts a memory into some form that is relevant to the individual or long term memory where the information is stored permanently.

Sensory memory stage, where your senses are automatically gathering  information even you are not aware of it. Your senses of sight smell, touch, hearing involves in this stage. For example, you read this article and the same time you smell something, and you may also hear some noise while touching some object.

But the important information for you will quickly move to your short-term memory. It’s where you focus your attention. In your short – term memory stage, after you successfully capture the information, you send it to your short term memory in a manner of visual, auditory or motion in which you are comfortable with. Holding on to the information so it doesn’t fade  away. But too much information balanced at the same time, the information may bumped out and lost.

The long term memory has virtually unlimited capacity. The brain has billions of nerve cells called neurons and each are is capable of thousands of connections with other brain cells. Do us store permanently all the information placed in long term memory? Same information may fade unless we recall and refresh them periodically. In fact, the more you use long term memory, the more efficient it gets.

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