- How exactly does a brain store information?
- How are our memories first formed?
- What makes us forget them, or create false
- or distorted memories?
- What happens in dementia or neurodegeneration, when our memories crumble?
- Looking to the future, how might we keep our memories intact, as our lifespans extend?
- What will be the impact of AI?
Written by a professional quizzer and neuroscientist Hold That Thought is a concise, accessible and entertaining guide to all aspects of our memory. Drawing on personal experience and historical case studies, Darragh Ennis touches on subjects as wide-ranging and fascinating as plant and animal memory, our memory’s relationship with taste, smell and sleep, and how we might strengthen our memories to competitive level.
Did you know?:
- Short term memory is only a few seconds.
- Memories exist as physical objects in your brain. Any long-term memory is stored in a trace of neurons in a particular pattern.
- Photographic memory doesn’t really exist.
- Goldfish memories are actually pretty good, they are unfairly maligned!
