Working memory
Posted in technology on 05/01/2008 08:13 am by karenI am interested in this article on working memory. I sometimes get the feeling that my short term memory is on the fritz. Got online and tried some memory tests and came out well above average. Still, that nagging sense that I’m not remembering. That I’m not seeing the whole picture. That something is falling through the cracks.
I wonder how much of this is related to multitasking day after day after day. My cognitive functions are all split up and processing multiple items at once, and perhaps the issue isn’t that my short term memory is shot, so much as that it is all so automatized that I can’t even feel it working. Yes, perhaps my brain is now numb from overstimulation.
The bottom line, though, is that I don’t really trust it/my brain/me. Surely this is a result of always having mounting piles of tasks and subtasks, with no break in between all the overlapping projects and the ridiculous number of administrative details (aka, crap).
Is this sort of thing healthy for humans? At this point, I vote no.