How many ideas can fit in one brain?
MIT News, When four is not four, but rather two plus two, MIT neuroscientists redefine the limits of working visual memory (June 2011)
The Magical Mystery Four: How Is Working Memory Capacity Limited and Why? (2010)
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The answer: I don't know for sure after Googling the question, but I do believe it is a lot. Why ask such a question? It is like this, I was thinking again.
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| 5 Years |
As I'm searching the Internet for recent articles, 2020 - 2024, I realize that my brain is resisting the fun of learning. To better organize the subject, I decide to start with links to articles. Moving along, I begin to read the text. The more I read, the more my brain says...Think of something else We aren't into a high capacity learning experience! I understand that because I've been in a depression dip. Learning takes a lot of brain power that depression does not relinquish readily or easily.
To simplify.
Changing my lifestyle is a challenge. Clearing my mind to think smoother and sharper, (a worthy goal) I've been assessing my thinking history.
I believe we are born curious. I believe, that when I first began breathing air, my first thought is: Where the F%#& am I!?
I am sure I was terrified. I can't imagine myself as a chilled new born. As it happens, I spent a lot of time by myself wondering about the initial question. When I learned to speak the language, my mother said I talked myself to sleep, and talked myself awake.
She was not a journaling person. There was no computer or tape recorder. Not even a camera happy parent to take many candid pictures of me.
All that learning, all that brain use is in my memory somewhere, for what I don't know. If there are lives lived one after the other, then in this life of mine, not much of the past life information has come forward. What if what I was talking about are things that did transfer to the new me? Did she listen to what I was saying? I guess, yes because she knew I talked. I think we often dismiss a new person's chats because we think of a baby's brain as not developed. It may be more developed that we know or science is as yet, able to measure.
Training your brain to think better, be healthier is as important, I believe, as exercising the body.
I noted that as I've been pondering brain health, on my list of foods to add artichoke hearts rise to the top. I haven't had them in years. They are a good brain food. The brain knows.
What a cutie you were at five years old. Back in the day, they didn't take as many pictures as we do now. Only one or two for each special occasion or holiday. I'm sure she was a good mother, as she raised a wonderful You. : )
ReplyDelete~Sheri
os.....artichoke hearts are the best, and dipped in mayo, even better. I didn't know they were brain food. I learned something today. ; )
ReplyDeleteSheri,
ReplyDeleteThe children of today, they even have birth videos. Can you imagine seeing the room at moment you were born. It boggles the mind. Wrap my brain around seeing myself as a baby in a video is surreal.
I do like that photograph of you at 5 years.
ReplyDeleteWhen growing up so many children ask why?
We are curious, we want to know.
Lets continue to be kind to our brain, no matter what age we are!
All the best Jan
Love that photo! Today the number of photos taken of children is mind boggling.
ReplyDeletePhotos were treasured and expensive when we were growing up. I have just a few. Now there are so, so many photos of children. I cannot imagine having the birth of my children filmed on videotape. Memories are vivid enough.
ReplyDeleteI used to do 'Wordle' as a fun thing but now I'm approaching it as more of an exercise for my brain. I also try to approach each landscape as a challenge to try some new technique. Both, I think, help my brain. Of course, no doubt there's a study somewhere that pooh-poohs that entire assumption.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Maewyn that brain exercise is as important as physical movement and that's why I decided to challenge mine with learning to play American Mah Jongg. The distinction is made because I learned there is a Chinese version with different rules, as if the rules for this version were not enough. It has been slow going but still fun in an infuriating sort of way at times. I also play Scrabble weekly with a 92-year old resident here and she beats me at times so there is hope that our minds can remain active.
ReplyDeleteInteresting comments about photo taking today because it seems people care less about printed photos that were once lovingly inserted into albums, of which I have too many. Now way too many are taken and never printed. By the way, thanks for sharing the photo of yourself.
Jan,
ReplyDeleteI agree. It is strange, and in an eerie way, that as young children, we want to know why we are here, get the low down on what life on planet Earth is.
Marie,
ReplyDeleteMind boggling, yes! There has already been lawsuits against parents from their children being unhappy with their nude photos being posted online. Parents don't always think first about a child's privacy.
Lorrie,
ReplyDeleteVivid memories are enough, I totally agree.
Going through picture folders this morning, I count over two thousand in only a 3 month folder. I find myself apologizing to cloud photos for delecting them. I went through a cloud stage evidently. lol
Beatrice,
ReplyDeleteThat is a good idea, to play scrabble. The game does challenge the brain, better I think, than playing computer games online.
Photo trivia: The picture of me is about the time my mother entered me into a baby contest at Revere Beach, MA. In those days service organizations held such events for the community. Post WWII there were a huge number of young children. I won a silver cup and a certificate for being 99% something.
Sweet 5 year old photo of you ~ Great post about the brain ~ makes me think about the saying to paraphrase ~
ReplyDelete'Being a human being also a human 'being'~ time for just 'being.'
Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Carol,
ReplyDeleteI was being a human this morning going through the photos without wanting to howl at the sun. lol
Maryanne,
ReplyDeleteI am sure there is a study out there that says if you look at your feet more the a dozen times a day, you won't live to be 100 years.
That's okay because there's another study that says if you look at your feet a dozen times a day you are more likely to win the lottery.
Sometimes I have so many ideas in my rain it is hard for me to go to sleep. Janice
ReplyDelete"Clearing my mind to think smoother and sharper." That does seems like a worthwhile goal. My first thought was to wonder how one does this? Then it occurred to me... I have recently completed two tasks that were nagging at me for a very long time. It's amazing when those tasks were finished how clear my mind was. Now, my task is to clear off the desk I am sitting at, and start to set the office room into something that looks a little better. That should help the mind too.
ReplyDeleteJanice,
ReplyDeleteA nice herbal tea, music, nature tapes can help me sleep.
Becki,
ReplyDeleteYou have the right attitude.
Clearing things out in our environment gives our brain a breath of fresh vision.
I agree that training your brain to be healthier is a very good thing!
ReplyDeleteNuts are a good brain food. I buy them regularly. Also, certain fruit and veggies. Love blueberries, they might be one.
I play a couple games online, but, am not sure if they help my brain or just help me waste time.
Really sweet photo!!
~Mary
Mary,
ReplyDeleteWasting time is what I've been wondering about as well. I've been trying new games instead of the same ones. Wordle and a jigsaw puzzle are keepers.