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Feeling joyful when reminiscing makes your brain function better, says Dr. Merrill. As your mood perks up, so does your brain. The result: You become more aware, alert, and better able to enjoy life.
31. “Time’s the thief of memory.” — Stephen King 32. “Collect beautiful moments, not things.” — Unknown 33. “Take the time to make memories today, for tomorrow is never promised.”
Emotion affects the way autobiographical memories are encoded and retrieved. Emotional memories are reactivated more, they are remembered better and have more attention devoted to them. [145] Through remembering our past achievements and failures, autobiographical memories affect how we perceive and feel about ourselves. [145]
According to Kukushkin, the memories stored in non-brain cells in other parts of the body are memories strictly related to the roles that those specific cells play in human health. Thus, he detailed:
In one study Levine et al. (2009) [56] primes of the cultural belief of women being more emotional than men had a greater effect on responses for older memories compared to new memories. The long-term recall of emotions was more in line with the primed opinions, showing that long-term recall of emotions was heavily influenced by current opinions.
The right ventral prefrontal cortex and the insular cortex are specific to "knowing that you don't know", whereas prefrontal regions are generally more specific to the feeling of knowing. [22] These findings suggest that a person knowing that they do not know and feeling of knowing are two neuroanatomically dissociable features of metamemory ...
Sufficiently more evolved is the second layer of Damasio's theory, Core Consciousness. This emergent process occurs when an organism becomes consciously aware of feelings associated with changes occurring to its internal bodily state; it is able to recognize that its thoughts are its own, and that they are formulated in its own perspective. [1]
Teaching is a social activity. Only when kids feel safe and loved can their hearts and minds be opened to learning. When kids feel safe, loved their minds open to learning