It is almost possible to state categorically: every woman remembers her first kiss. And it need not have been good for the memory to be recovered. Why does it happen?
The fact is that the human brain stores memory data in a very selective manner. This selectivity reminds us of our first kiss as if it had just happened, while remembering what we ate at dinner yesterday often requires more brain strain.
This is because the first kiss day is a much more remarkable and unique event in our lives than a routine activity like dinner. According to psychologists at the University of Toronto, Canada, we recorded more efficiently what was very important at some point.
But researchers also found that people tend to remember details that are tied to emotions more easily. "We found that we see events related to the awakening of emotions with greater clarity than those that are more mundane," says one of the study's authors, Rebecca Todd.
And he goes on: Are they positive? for example the first kiss, the birth of a child, or the day we win an award? or negative, like traumatic events, breakups, or a humiliating and painful childhood moment that we all carry with us, is the effect the same?
According to the study, conducted in partnership with the University of Manchester and the University of California, San Diego, the more vivid the experience at the time it happens, the more vivid it will be. memory associated with her. This is because the part of the brain that is responsible for classifying the importance of our memories becomes more active when one looks? for vivid memories.
Through electrophysiology, which studies the electrical properties of cells and tissues, scientists have measured the activation time of the cerebral cortex to see when the brain is most sensitive. ? We find that the brain indexes liveliness very fast? about a fifth of a second after seeing an image, which suggests that the memory is linked to vision and not just thought ?, says Todd.
Emotion alters activity in the visual cortex which, in turn, influences the way we view the image. The subjective meaning of an image effectively influenced? Clarity? did the volunteers see her?
Science is there to explain, in its terms, but only we know how much the first kiss really means in our lives.
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