Information Processing

Information processing

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. (Erma Bombeck quotes, n.d. ).

The author of " Memory and Megabytes," Ellen Ullman stated that human memory and machine memory differ from each other. Human memory and machine memory differ in many ways, but they also share some similarities.

Eidetic and photographic memory, although slightly different concepts, generally refer to the ability to voluntarily recall or hallucinate viewed images with extreme detailed accuracy. Eidetic memory is the ability to voluntarily conjure a vivid mental image of a viewed scene, or object, including its color and textured spirit to a precise degree. These images are mentally projected in space as being sheer or transparent. Eidetic images are unlike ordinary images because the images do not change during eye movements and can be evoked for days to years after the original encounter with the specific scene. In contrast to eidetic memory, photographic memory is a more widespread dubious and cultural phenomenon in which a person has total recall of any image or scene, as a perfectly maintained image in the brain, after the initial viewing. Photographic memory popularly implies perfect memory. Eidetic memory is more commonly seen in children, while photographic memory pertains more to adults, and is rarely reported or studied outside of specific case studies. Therefore, photographic and eidetic memories are unusual and greatly debated feats of the normal limits of human visual and long-term memory.( mrobbins, 2010).

Computer memory, and photographic memory are such an aid for our human memory. Human memory is the ability to encode and store information, and recall them whenever we need. Human memory changes over the time, and can be lost. Every time you remember an event from the past, your brain networks change in ways that can alter the later recall of the...