Question

feeling is a necessary condition for human memory​

Answer 1

Explanation:

human memory ability of human work of mind

Answer 2

Explanation:

estion of how our how our brains memorize daily experiences has intrigued cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists for decades. Amongst a range of theories attempting to explain how we encode and later recall information, a curious influence over memory encoding has been observed: our emotional state at the time of an event occurring can affect our ability to memorize details of it.

Moreover, emotions are believed to play a role in determining whether we can recall a stored memory at the time we try to revisit it. Coaxing ourselves into the same mood we were experiencing when we witnessed an event, for instance, has been found to often have a positive effect on our chances of recalling specific details relating to it.

It appears that emotionally charged situations can lead us to create longer lasting memories of the event. When we are led to experience feelings of delight, anger or other states of mind, vivid recollections are often more possible than during everyday situations in which we feel little or no emotional attachment to an event.

The findings of a series of studies have implied that emotion plays a role at various specific stages of remembering (encoding) information, consolidating memories and during the recall of experiences at a later date. For instance, cognitive psychologist Donald MacKay and a team of researchers asked participants to take part in an emotional Stroop test, in which they were presented with different words in quick succession. Each word was printed in a different color, and subjects were asked to name the color. They were also later asked to recall the words after the initial test. MacKay found that taboo words, which were intended to elicit an emotional response, were recalled more frequently than words which carried less emotional connotations (MacKay et al, 2004).1

The results of MacKay’s experiment, and others with similar outcomes, suggest that an emotive state at the time we perceive and process an observation can positively affect the encoding of information into the short or even long-term memory.

Although the emotional Stroop test demonstrates this link between emotion and memory, the role of emotion has been long suspected.

In 1977, researchers at Harvard published a paper entitled Flashbulb Memories, in which they noted that people are often able to vividly recollect where they were when an event occurred that was significant to them. They used the example of the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, but many people will hold similarly detailed memories of what they were doing when they learned of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 or the death of a famous person such as Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson. Unlike a photographic memory, these “flashbulb memories” tend only to occur only when the event is felt to be of particular significance to a person or when it causes a state of surprise, supporting the idea that a person’s emotional state at the time of an event can influence whether or not it is encoded as a memory (Brown and Kulik, 1977).2