We are 7-th graders and work on a project related to memory. We have a question to Dr Wozniak: “Why do we better remember pictures than word combinations?
In the course of evolution, humans practiced visual memory a lot. They did not deal much with math or abstractions. That is why there are parts of our brain built specially to serve visual memory. As you know, evolution gives better adapted individuals a better chance for survival. Those who could remember better, e.g. shape of the prey or enemy, could survive better, and pass their “good” genes to the next generation. Calculating a differential was not needed in apes or early humans. That is why evolution did not built a specialized calculator into our brain. It has, however, built a calculator for processing visual data. You “type in” the picture, and get a short answer: “danger!” or “food!”. Those simple signals are easier to remember than … streams of bits of a complex image. Evolution and memory are fun, aren’t they.
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