PSYCH: The Story of the Human Mind
The Next Big Idea
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The Limits of Memory
Short term memory is just as much a physical event in the brain as a memory of your hometown. We have our 86 billion neurons give or take, and there's only so much space. Maybe the finiteness of the human brain helps to explain why we have such bad memories. And I don't know if I don't really think it's due to capacity limitation. It's more because people have the wrong idea of memory. Remembering something is much more of a reconstructive event. You've shown your life, it really happened. Turn out to be often dramatically false.
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