Because of information overload and the monotony of pandemic life, your brain may already be forgetting parts of the covid years.
Finally, during memory retrieval, theNotably, memories are not fixed and permanent. The memory is subject to change each time we access andWhat we remember tends to be distinctive, emotionally loaded and deemed worthy of processing and reflecting upon in our heads after the event happened. Our memories are centered on our life stories and what affected us personally the most.
to encode the overload of information we had to sift through — masks, social distancing, superspreaders, more cases, more deaths, new waves and new variants such as omicron and delta, and who even remembers all the subvariants?, psychology professor who researches the social transmission of memory at Stony Brook University. “Even for such salient emotional events and salient life-threatening events, that the more you have of it, the more you will have trouble capturing all of them.
When events are uniform, they are harder to recall. “The memory sort of puts it together as almost one event,” she said. “So therefore, I think we will have quite unclear memories from those specific years.”Here’s another reason we forget: As a society, many people don’t want to hold onto their covid memories.occurs because the future can be imagined in many ways compared to the past, which is fixed.
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