Response to the video

Memory is related to breathing because it is a thing we do everyday at every moment of our lives and becaue we don’t know how we remember things.

                What is stored In the brain are not just memories. Those are factors that make up your everyday life. Remembering does not begin straight away. At an early age, childhood amnesia is developed first. It refers to the fact that adults cannot remember what they did when they were 5 years old of before.

                Professor Mark Ho, looks for the key chain that enables memory to begin in children and made an experiment. The test consisted of self recognition, by making the baby realize that he/she is someone as babies are not very aware of their surroundings. Then the mother would put a tissue on the babies nose and will have a mark on their noses. When they were shown a mirror and the babies would see the dirt mark on their noses. Most children would point at the mirror rather than themselves. Only two of the babies who did the experiment were able to realize there was something wrong in their face and noticed the dirt mark on themselves rather than pointing it our in the mirror.

                An image of self is needed before being able to recall one’s own memories. Before we might have memories of events and things but the researchers discuss that they do not have any emotional memories and therefore not meaningful to us unless we have a perception of who we are.