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Do you ever wonder why you remember certain things very clearly, some very faintly, and some things not at all? Some childhood or past experiences just stick with us whereas others just don’t bother to stay in our brains for long.  Illustrated by Drishya Unnithan In simple terms, anything to be stored in our brain as memory has to pass via “memory compartments” for the brain to judge if it is even important to keep for a long time or not. This judgment is mostly based on how important or effective the thing is or how it affected us, though many other reasons remain unknown. Memory is broadly classified as short-term and long-term. However, many more subtypes are known depending on the experience and category the memory belongs to. For example, things that you remember about yourself are referred to as “autobiographical memory, ” and “working memory”  comes into action when you are listening to a thriller story while trying to figure out who the killer is.  Illustrated by ...

Do you remember any five phone numbers from your contact list? Do you constantly surf the internet for the tiniest bit of information? Do you feel helpless with your memory without looking into your gadgets? If yes, you could be one of the victims of DIGITAL AMNESIA.  Illustrated by Drishya Unnithan Digital amnesia is when you have difficulty in remembering things like phone numbers, or important dates because you are assured your phone is going to do it for you.  DA is forgetfulness, a loss in your memorizing power,  because of too much dependence on the digital platform for its memory. The use of devices for storage of information is believed to be a way of making up new space in our brains for new information. However, we have become too reliant on these devices causing our memory to short-circuit. Not only does it affect the memory power, but also concentration, or as we like to call it the ‘attention span’. Instances like not reading articles just due to its length, ...