For sure, when I have something on my mind or a big decision to try and make, and I’m feeling less positive, it has a huge weight on my mind. In these times It’s almost like my mind just cannot shut off and is continually running at a much faster rate than my body, and it becomes increasingly difficult to ‘shut off’ and unwind. It makes it so much harder to even think about normal day to day things let alone remember information and learned knowledge, 

I also find that today as we have access to everything that’s ever been learned at our fingertips on our phones, this means our memory and brain layout is changing... I feel anyone (not everyone) born in he last 80s and upwards has this new way of thinking, which is almost, not to think! People used to have to read books and search for information rather than instantly get it only to forget one moment later

@krnel emotions is very amazing gift of God, because everything which we feel is depends on emotions. Thank you for share this useful information.

>Or at least the negative emotional state would not be as beneficial to one's ability to remember information or knowledge compared to a positive emotional state.

Off the top of my head, I would say it's the actual _opposite_ of this.

If you think about it from a biological survival perspective, it's the negative experiences that are essential to be remembered - for survival.

Our bodies tend to work on negative feedback loops, not positive ones.
Remembering positive emotional  states is nice, but not survival.

Remembering negative one most definitely are 'survival memories'.

I'm on my first coffee of the morning, so feel free to blow my hypothesis to bits! lol

there's well known related thing to this experiment, if you do something every day it becomes a routine, if you drive your car to a job every day then you will not remember each ride after certain amount of time, if some one would ask you what you did at nine a.m.  one year ago then you would assume that you were driving your car to your job at that time, but you wouldn't actually remember it, if one day on the way to your job asteroid suddenly falls then you will remember this ride for the rest of your life with details what happened before and after asteroid fell.  As I understood this experiment is telling us that you will remember better what happened this day after asteroid fell than what happened before asteroid fell. Logically it makes sense because you would start to pay much more attention  to everything after dramatic events, everything suddenly have more meaning to you.

I think that it’s more tagged to negative emotions. There are both positive emotions associated and negative but I think the negative ones are more prevalent in our memory. Seems to me it related to the fight or flight mechanism built into our bodies; negative emotions can trigger these types of responses. Think of  9/11, most people in their late 20’s and older know where they were when 9/11 happened, know what was happening. I remember exactly where I was, what I was doing, my dad yelling that he needed the TV. 
There are great positive emotions that I remember as well of course but I remember fewer of these as vividly as the negative ones.

As the technology advances, I watch more and more of these brain studies come out. Many of them are fascinating; many bring new information to light. We're learning...

I often end up back at a core question — as I did, reading this — of whether our biology is actually capable of keeping up with the speed of our technological advance. 

We take the fundamental concept that an organism adapts to its environment; and humans are an organism. We adapt. But our technological changes are moving SO fast... can our brains actually keep up? Or are we getting to the point where technological advances are starting to register as "trauma" to our brains? 

So, in reference to your post and the article... my ability to remember (or not) stuff is less related to emotional/non-emotional states than to simply the amount of data that's inbound. Sometimes my brain feels like a hard drive in desperate need of being defragged. I can't remember a freakin' *thing!*

Now, another variable might be that I'm in my 50's, so the flexibility of my neural net is less than it once was. Makes me wonder about the age group of the people in the studies. We're they college students? Older? A mix? Does it even matter... I don't know.

But I do enjoy taking my brain out and playing with it!

>Emotional experiences have been known to be better remembered than non-emotional experiences.

This expects why I can remember very traumatic experiences from my childhood and forget about a course I just read yesterday. I always believed in the potency of our emotions as humans, as it influences not just memories but decisions.
As regards learning I think it plays a vital role and most time I try to be in the same emotional state I was during a lecture to recall some of the details. Usually, fun classes are easier to remember than boring ones because the lecturer engages our emotions positively.  So you can say it counts--our emotions are engaged in our learning process and they can facilitate memory recollection.

maybe a better perspective is one of worthwhile memories. when we do something that harnesses the emotional response, it creates lasting impressions. these impressions are like caches in our brain. the allow instant recall and also defer to long term storage.

there are several times when we are able to recall even when there has been no impression made. i guess you call it neutral or subliminal memory. we tend to forget positive things very quickly while we remember negative things for a long time.

Very interesting article. 

One of the things that helped me control my emotions is the use of TM or Transcendental Meditation. And while technically, I cannot use that term as it is copyrighted, there are loads of classes and videos to teach mantra meditation aka mindfullness.

Of course if you are a skeptic about all this, all I ask is that you try it our for 2 weeks, 20 minutes a day, and see if you are not able to better control your emotions. 

A lot of very high profile people use this technique to help them in their careers. Of note are Jerry Seinfeld, Clint Eastwood, and director David Lynch. In fact it was through a David Lynch Foundation event teamed with Operation Warrior Wellness that offered me the avenues to learn the technique. And today, you can find a swath of people teaching the basics online for free. 


How this relates to memory is that, I am able remember things more clearly these days. And interestingly, the memories are not devoid of emotions. In fact, I can recall some things in such clarity, I will tear up. But, with that information stored in my head, using the mantra meditation allows me to make more logical decisions based on those feelings, than to simply react spontaneously. Seems a bit counter-intuitive. 

And I also realize I am opening myself up here to a lot of criticism. But, again, all I have to say is try it. (granted, there are some major jackasses out there. So if it's a Corey Goode type telling you meditation will let you talk to big blue bird people from outer space, then you know you found the wrong instructor. Not kidding! There really is a guy out there with wildly unverifiable stories like that. More than one person actually.). 

Also, I used to have an emotional block with math. As a 3 year old child, I witnessed violence on someone over math. It was my sister, and she was being yelled at by my father over a math problem she got wrong. And it got physical. 

And, I was never good at math in high school or later in college. But, after I started meditating, (coming up on 9 years this September), I went back to college under the VA's Vocational Rehab program. 

At one point, I was studying to get into a masters program. And that meant taking a GRE test. It was intimidating as the math portion included Algebra, Trig, and geometry. I was always good with geometry. But the other 2 subjects forced me to the Math Lab. 

After about 2 weeks, I began to get every problem in front of me correct. The instructor who ran the lab told me never saw anyone pick it up so quickly. And while I never ended up taking the GRE or going for a masters, I am very happy that I found out the only thing holding me back from math mastery was an emotion, not my capacity for number crunching. 

Hope that helps! 

Also, I think it is interesting to note that Vulcans from Star Trek lore, all practice meditation. And as their primary characteristic is that they refrain from expressing emotion, I feel its more than a coincidence that Gene Roddenberry included them in his series. 

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When we drive our life with too much emotional moods then for sure our life decisions will impact and will going to give negatives and positives too, but emotional decisions falls at negative sides many times. When we face emotional events then for sure that effect will stay with us for long term because that hits us into deepest levels so it's impossible to forget those instances where we felt heartbreak and that emotional essence always born in our thoughts whenever we tend to forget it.

No matter what and no matter what others think but we are mystery and our overall creation is mystery and our brain is greatest tool and brain really works so organised way with collaboration of Subconscious mind and subconscious mind collects all 90% data and that's why dreams are effected by subconscious thinking because our subconscious mind works for 24/7 and it's greatest storage. We can say to someone that don't effect with anything but it's that simple? **NO**. If it would be simple then for sure we would live so much happily without any stress but in my opinion this Emotional State of mind is like an fitted expression and tool of thought in us.

Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂