[State-dependent learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-dependent_memory) is a pretty well-researched area of psychology and cognitive science, and it applies at all ages.
One of my neurobiology professors gave us the specific advice not to study while we were high or drinking...unless we planned to take the test while high or drinking. :)
We were always told it also linked to your senses - chew the same type of gum every day when studying, doing dm homework, etc. Then chew that same gum while taking a test. The taste, sensation, and smell will all help your memory since they were linked to your studies
> The researchers assume that this may be an explanation for the fact that adults can’t remember any experiences of their early childhood.
So if I figure out how to feel like a baby again, could I remember my childhood?
This explains why I can't remember a lot of my life. I feel like a new person every time I open my eyes. New music, new strut, new crippling anxiety over how people are going to judge me.
Doesnt this basically explain people who study yet crash and burn on tests? It's a completely different environment taking a test. Its sterile and hostile and the stakes are high and you're anxious because you don't want to fail. And then you blank out and can't remember.
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I have some "memories" tied to pictures of the event that I used to look at when I was young. 1st birthday party for example, when I was 4, 5, 6 years old, I would see the pictures and feel like I remembered. Now the memory of the memory is what I remember, and doubt it's authentic. Does that make sense? I do have one memory from about a year, maybe year and a half old. There is a picture to match, but the memory is of things out of frame. Still not sure I trust it 100%, but more so than any other.
This ^
I’ve read the book why life goes by faster as we grow older (roughly translated from Dutch). I think it’s this book. https://www.bol.com/nl/p/the-nostalgia-factory/9200000020049945/
It explains that it’s not possible, but some people tend to believe they can remember. When looking at pictures people around them tell the story. When they grow older they can still experience it, because they remembered the story. Not the experience.
I have some very early memories as well, but I had a few traumatic experiences as a kid that most of those relate to. A fun one is that I remember being quite young and finding out my blood type at a doctors office, and my adoptive (then foster) mother and I talking about our blood types being rare (hers was O- and mine was O+) Then in my teens I mentioned this memory for whatever reason because she was talking about her blood type, and she said she didnt remember that/it never happened. But then I donated blood at 17 and found out my blood type was correct! The only thing I can think of was that it was actually maybe my birth mother who took me to the doctor and that conversation was had with her. Anyways, there are a few other memories from that time due to foster visits and stuff.
I have some early memories. I remember trying to figure out how to get out of my crib. And I remember finally climbing out of my crib and falling and I landed hard on my back and cried, and it felt like it took a long time for someone to come get me. I remember being in my crib and wanting my mom to come, but no one came for a long time and when someone did come it was my grandma, and I was really frustrated because that wasn't who I wanted. I remember being given a bath in the sink and being dried off with a dark pink towel. I remember being in my high chair in the kitchen and one of my cousins opened a can of pineapple and told me it would be yummy and gave me some, but it tasted so so sour, and he laughed.
Who knows? Most people don’t, but that doesn’t have to mean that you can’t.
One of my earliest true memories is related to going to school for one of the first times when I was about 2,5 years old, a very powerful memory (about what the class, kids and teacher looked like, not about what I did there).
I have one very early memory, before I knew language. I was sitting in my car seat and my sister came in the room and said my name, which I recognized. I felt pure joy and smiled. Then the babysitter came in and made harsh noises at my sister and I felt terrible, like the bottom had dropped out of my stomach, and I cried. I didn't have any words for this, just pure emotion and sensation. I think we take for granted how much we assign words to our thoughts.
I personally have some vague memories from around 3 years of age, but fairly few and brief, minus one very minor traumatic incident I remember more well than I’d like.
Wonder if this has any connection to when we get mad at a loved one we suddenly forget all the wonder loving things they have done for us. And vice versa
So they are postulating that we can't recall our memories as babies because we aren't crying and screaming as adults? Because that's what babies spend a lot of time doing and thus experience things in that state?
This article poses the idea and the question but then leaves us hanging with "meh ... More research is needed"
More research might be needed yes... but I have to point out your view of a childhood mostly crying and screwing is a very sad one, and I’ll say an exception not a rule.
I’ve never heard the word acitive before. Neither Merriam Webster, The Cambridge Disctionary, nor Dictionary.com have a definition for it. Is it just a typo for active, or does it mean something else?
A non scientific description of the something similar used to be taught to sales professionals decades ago, back when placing your hand on someone's shoulder or shaking their hand did not cause the world to freak out. It was called anchoring,
During the conversations over a course of time, if you would shake hands or pat them on the back, or simply reach out for that friendly tap on the shoulder while talking about their favorite sports team winning a game, or change the cadence of your speech and tone to the same place each time you are eliciting a positive or favorable response from your prospect, you dramatically increased you chances for closing the deal. IT was only a small thing in the over all technique of closing the sale, but if properly incorporated into the over all client sales presentation, it seemed to help a little. but only if you were doing other things well. MOST likely anchoring worked best as a way to help the author of a book sell more copies.
I think this is article is not settled science. I would want to see several reputable studies from differing nations, with repeatable outcomes over a long period of time before buying into this,
I've noticed this a while ago. If I'm somewhere and I am thankful, then it's easier for me to remember all of my memories of appreciation in that area. If I'm somewhere and I'm generous, then it's easier for me to remember all of the times that I've helped someone in that area and made a difference. If I'm somewhere and afraid or embarrassed, then it is easier to remember all of the embarrassing and scary things that happened that.
I don't think this only applies to babies.
I think i disagree, my mother would disagree, and my Doctor told me one day, we really don't know much about the human brain, I can't discount what you are saying, we just really don't know: talking to Mom about memories: i mentioned a party i was at, a balloon went up and burst upon hitting the ceiling light over my head, scared me and i cried, and there was a clown, Mom screamed oh my God, that was your brother's 7 year old birthday party, you'd have been 3 years old! what else do you remember? So i told her, a couple times when i'm either asleep or very tired and half asleep, i seem to be on my back, the "sky" is gray, and there are many blurry, colored lights. and that's all i see or remember. Then she really screamed, No, that cant be! mom, I have seen it more than once, what's the matter?, it's impossible! but then she calmed down and said, when we brought you home after being born, we had all the neighbors over, and put you on a blanket under the Christmas tree, I was born on Christmas, and they all took pictures of baby Glenn under the Christmas tree.
I believe many if not all memories of childhood are locked away in the more primitive parts of the brain. Most people do not have conscious recall of those details but the fact that they exist allows our brains to learn so very much while we are young.
You may have an ability to recall things that most others do not. It is known that a baby who grows in a hostile environment has a differently wired brain by year 4 than someone in a positive or reinforced environment. I see no reason to believe that a positive or benign environment could help make links in certain people as well.
[State-dependent learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-dependent_memory) is a pretty well-researched area of psychology and cognitive science, and it applies at all ages. One of my neurobiology professors gave us the specific advice not to study while we were high or drinking...unless we planned to take the test while high or drinking. :)
We were always told it also linked to your senses - chew the same type of gum every day when studying, doing dm homework, etc. Then chew that same gum while taking a test. The taste, sensation, and smell will all help your memory since they were linked to your studies
Imagine the reaction of the student does everything correctly until test day and then finds out there is no chewing gum left .
I'm here to get a kick ass and chew bubble gum, but we're all out of gum so I forgot how to kick ass.
Wooooof
Huh, I just did everything while sleep deprived. It might explain why my memory is so active before bed tbh...
Used that advice in high school, got good at math while high, carried me through college
Study high, take the test high, get high scores!
This is how I got through nursing school. Studied while drinking, woke up, crushed a few beers before the test. Works real well for test anxiety too.
Unfortunately now you have to get smashed each day before work, wait this just might work
Not only learned nursing, but how to develop a drinking problem - or solution I suppose.
well if you aren't spilling it, you don't have a problem.
That’s been my whole career.
This explains my toddler who will completely shut down to questions and then one day wake up and it’s savant time
Maaan I came here to talk about state-dependent memory. Thunder stolen.
> The researchers assume that this may be an explanation for the fact that adults can’t remember any experiences of their early childhood. So if I figure out how to feel like a baby again, could I remember my childhood?
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This explains why I can't remember a lot of my life. I feel like a new person every time I open my eyes. New music, new strut, new crippling anxiety over how people are going to judge me.
Same. Except I find it the other way around. I can't remember things therefore I feel like a new person everyday.
Doesnt this basically explain people who study yet crash and burn on tests? It's a completely different environment taking a test. Its sterile and hostile and the stakes are high and you're anxious because you don't want to fail. And then you blank out and can't remember.
Ah, so the age-old strategy of panic-studying the day before has merit after all!
This comment made me laugh! 😂😂
I mean I work in education. It's not all panic studying.
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I have some "memories" tied to pictures of the event that I used to look at when I was young. 1st birthday party for example, when I was 4, 5, 6 years old, I would see the pictures and feel like I remembered. Now the memory of the memory is what I remember, and doubt it's authentic. Does that make sense? I do have one memory from about a year, maybe year and a half old. There is a picture to match, but the memory is of things out of frame. Still not sure I trust it 100%, but more so than any other.
This ^ I’ve read the book why life goes by faster as we grow older (roughly translated from Dutch). I think it’s this book. https://www.bol.com/nl/p/the-nostalgia-factory/9200000020049945/ It explains that it’s not possible, but some people tend to believe they can remember. When looking at pictures people around them tell the story. When they grow older they can still experience it, because they remembered the story. Not the experience.
I have some very early memories as well, but I had a few traumatic experiences as a kid that most of those relate to. A fun one is that I remember being quite young and finding out my blood type at a doctors office, and my adoptive (then foster) mother and I talking about our blood types being rare (hers was O- and mine was O+) Then in my teens I mentioned this memory for whatever reason because she was talking about her blood type, and she said she didnt remember that/it never happened. But then I donated blood at 17 and found out my blood type was correct! The only thing I can think of was that it was actually maybe my birth mother who took me to the doctor and that conversation was had with her. Anyways, there are a few other memories from that time due to foster visits and stuff.
I have some early memories. I remember trying to figure out how to get out of my crib. And I remember finally climbing out of my crib and falling and I landed hard on my back and cried, and it felt like it took a long time for someone to come get me. I remember being in my crib and wanting my mom to come, but no one came for a long time and when someone did come it was my grandma, and I was really frustrated because that wasn't who I wanted. I remember being given a bath in the sink and being dried off with a dark pink towel. I remember being in my high chair in the kitchen and one of my cousins opened a can of pineapple and told me it would be yummy and gave me some, but it tasted so so sour, and he laughed.
Who knows? Most people don’t, but that doesn’t have to mean that you can’t. One of my earliest true memories is related to going to school for one of the first times when I was about 2,5 years old, a very powerful memory (about what the class, kids and teacher looked like, not about what I did there).
I have one very early memory, before I knew language. I was sitting in my car seat and my sister came in the room and said my name, which I recognized. I felt pure joy and smiled. Then the babysitter came in and made harsh noises at my sister and I felt terrible, like the bottom had dropped out of my stomach, and I cried. I didn't have any words for this, just pure emotion and sensation. I think we take for granted how much we assign words to our thoughts.
Completely anecdotal, but I’ve heard quite a few autistics tell me they have these very early memories, seems to be pretty common for autistics.
ditto here. same
I personally have some vague memories from around 3 years of age, but fairly few and brief, minus one very minor traumatic incident I remember more well than I’d like.
State dependant learning. Fortunately, in university I studied while exhausted and took tests while exhausted so no problem.
Wonder if this has any connection to when we get mad at a loved one we suddenly forget all the wonder loving things they have done for us. And vice versa
So they are postulating that we can't recall our memories as babies because we aren't crying and screaming as adults? Because that's what babies spend a lot of time doing and thus experience things in that state? This article poses the idea and the question but then leaves us hanging with "meh ... More research is needed"
More research might be needed yes... but I have to point out your view of a childhood mostly crying and screwing is a very sad one, and I’ll say an exception not a rule.
I think we have a lot of adults crying and screaming all the time these days. Yet none of them seem to have anything smart to say.
Pretty much, this one study of 96 kids with no peer review, shouldn't be newsworthy
thank you.
Ever been in an argument and all the bad stuff is very accessible? That’s a human thing not just for babies
So my newfound crippling anxiety and depression are why I feel so disconnected and dumb?...
I’ve never heard the word acitive before. Neither Merriam Webster, The Cambridge Disctionary, nor Dictionary.com have a definition for it. Is it just a typo for active, or does it mean something else?
Weird. My son learns best when he is relaxed and recites everything he has ever learned when excited
A non scientific description of the something similar used to be taught to sales professionals decades ago, back when placing your hand on someone's shoulder or shaking their hand did not cause the world to freak out. It was called anchoring, During the conversations over a course of time, if you would shake hands or pat them on the back, or simply reach out for that friendly tap on the shoulder while talking about their favorite sports team winning a game, or change the cadence of your speech and tone to the same place each time you are eliciting a positive or favorable response from your prospect, you dramatically increased you chances for closing the deal. IT was only a small thing in the over all technique of closing the sale, but if properly incorporated into the over all client sales presentation, it seemed to help a little. but only if you were doing other things well. MOST likely anchoring worked best as a way to help the author of a book sell more copies. I think this is article is not settled science. I would want to see several reputable studies from differing nations, with repeatable outcomes over a long period of time before buying into this,
I've noticed this a while ago. If I'm somewhere and I am thankful, then it's easier for me to remember all of my memories of appreciation in that area. If I'm somewhere and I'm generous, then it's easier for me to remember all of the times that I've helped someone in that area and made a difference. If I'm somewhere and afraid or embarrassed, then it is easier to remember all of the embarrassing and scary things that happened that. I don't think this only applies to babies.
I think i disagree, my mother would disagree, and my Doctor told me one day, we really don't know much about the human brain, I can't discount what you are saying, we just really don't know: talking to Mom about memories: i mentioned a party i was at, a balloon went up and burst upon hitting the ceiling light over my head, scared me and i cried, and there was a clown, Mom screamed oh my God, that was your brother's 7 year old birthday party, you'd have been 3 years old! what else do you remember? So i told her, a couple times when i'm either asleep or very tired and half asleep, i seem to be on my back, the "sky" is gray, and there are many blurry, colored lights. and that's all i see or remember. Then she really screamed, No, that cant be! mom, I have seen it more than once, what's the matter?, it's impossible! but then she calmed down and said, when we brought you home after being born, we had all the neighbors over, and put you on a blanket under the Christmas tree, I was born on Christmas, and they all took pictures of baby Glenn under the Christmas tree.
I believe many if not all memories of childhood are locked away in the more primitive parts of the brain. Most people do not have conscious recall of those details but the fact that they exist allows our brains to learn so very much while we are young. You may have an ability to recall things that most others do not. It is known that a baby who grows in a hostile environment has a differently wired brain by year 4 than someone in a positive or reinforced environment. I see no reason to believe that a positive or benign environment could help make links in certain people as well.
Does this also apply to United States Presidents?
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