Memory is not an isolated quality; It is a mental activity or set of processes to improve the relationship with the interest, attention and operational efficiency of our brain.
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Memory is the basis of all our activities, is a valuable auxiliary of intelligence, as seen and is a faculty of the psyche is essential for intellectual activity, without it, objects, beings and our experiences disappeared from our consciousness without leaving a trace Unfortunately, we almost never reach the maximum: we only remain in operation of 15 to 15% of its total capacity.
In a practical sense we can talk about the existence of different types of memory that correspond to the human senses and depend on the quality of the sensitive image. The memory serves for the senses and the data that were finally rewritten for the mind, with what could have expected a type of memory linked to each sense and partially dependent on it; From time to time, there is nothing in the cigar, linking exclusively to a specific sense.
To clarify more this, I explain the types of memory.
- Auditory
It is perhaps the most important, among the sensory things, in the first years of our life. She must learn the mother tongue. Then this memory continues its development. There are individuals that can be recognized by the sound of their voice or by the noise of their steps; and that they learn from memory, with extraordinary ease, whole songs and even incredibly long speeches and lectures.
- Visual
What best registers memory is the place where doubts the visual images. The auditory memory is more developed in the first periods of our existence, but as we grow the visual memory acquires a clearer development. We always remember better what you see from what you hear. Hence the importance of visual memory in the study. Those who have well developed this type of memory can retain with precision the illustrations and engravings, the diagrams and even the typographical disposition of the lessons that should be studied.
- Touch
Millions of tiny nervous ramifications collect the tactile impulses that cause the things with which they come into contact. Newborns have a poor development of the sense of touch; but then, thanks to the first contacts with things, we began to differentiate the surface of them. We will have a memory of this type if we are able to recognize objects by the characteristics of their surface.
- Gustatory
The sense of taste has not developed very well in man, a difference from what happens in all other species of mammals. We will only find it in the search for the sensitivity of that sense, such as wine, coffee or ketchup tasters.
- Olfactory
This type of memory is the most persistent of all that derives from a sensory perception. In a heterogeneous mixture of odors, the strongest can easily be extended over others, so that our brain can operate on a reduced range of different odors; This does not happen with sounds. In the cigar industry, for example, we can meet people who determine even the name of the harvester because of the smell of the tobacco leaf.
Olfactory memory helps us recognize characteristic odors, which evoke memories of people or things.
All this implies that, many people by an infinity of circumstances could develop one or another capacity, resulting in those "super gifted". Any person could be a "super endowed" if it was proposed, could train their sense of taste and be able to become a famous taster, tasters are very important people who decide which product is sold and what is not.
In a very interesting documentary about tomato sauce or "Ketchup" I could appreciate how a group of tasters are dedicated to test the result of each bottled sauce to decide if it is suitable for consumption or not, in order to get after much effort that each Ketchup product has the same flavor.
I can also say that there are many books that teach you how to develop your photographic memory (very useful talent for those who like drawing) in a very nice way, it is not as difficult as it seems.