memory article

My memory article is about why we forget things and when we forget them. UC Davis psychologists Weiwei Zhang and Steven Luck did an experiment with colored squares flashed at intervals of 1,4, 10 seconds at a time. The participants either remembered all of them or none of them. They put a black square outlined in white up on a whiteboard and the participant got asked to recall one of the squares they saw. They didn't know which square they were going to have to say they remembered either.  Their short term memory would be wiped away gradually they might not be able to remember the colors the best but if they had a longer interval of looking at it then the whiteboard gets wiped all at once they will remember more precisely but once the interval gets to be longer there will be more random guesses. That is what the two psychologists found out was that the participants either guessed or they remembered it very well. Researchers at Harvard and MIT think that in order to remember things they have to have some meaning to them and not just a color block. So if you do an experiment with images that mean something to you, you might have more luck remembering the images and it will more likely keep it in your long term memory. If you keep having tests done with color blocks its almost like trying to copy down notes and having someone erase the board before you are done and you are trying to scramble to remember what was on the board.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-memory-so-good-bad/#