This man has no short term memory

[Sahil Pandit]

What is memory? 

Where is it located? 

Do we have control over our memories?

What's the relationship between emotions and memories? 

All questions aside, this video is eye opening and shocking...

[CreamCat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)

[Sempiternity]

The higher my consciousness/awareness raises, the more my past disappears. I find myself mostly completely in present moment, with no past. I can recall fragments here and there, the gist of the overall narrative, but for the most part it's gone. 

[SgtPepper]

There are various forms of memory like short-term memory, long term memory, procedural memory, declarative memory, autobiographical, and flashbulb memory.

https://www.brainhq.com/brain-resources/memory/types-of-memory/

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wsu-sandbox/chapter/parts-of-the-brain-involved-with-memory/

This is why you see that Clive lacks short-term memory, but remembers how to play a song on the piano. The brain is a synergistic system. 

Memory and emotions are connected through the amygdala. 

Relatively speaking we do and we do not have control over our memory. If we experience something traumatic, we may naturally hold onto it and it keeps us at night or we may repress it for years. Additionally, we can control our memory by practicing and using strategies to improve memory such as chunking and repetition. 

 

Another example is people who lose the produce speech due lesion in the Broca's area, but they'll have a patient with that condition to sing you are my sunshine. Just to show how the brain can lose one nuanced ability and then improve it in another context.

 

Edited December 5, 2019 by SgtPepper