How do Bad Experiences makes Your Memory Stronger

                                How do Bad Experiences makes Your Memory Stronger?

There is a Limit for Everything, So same is right for Bad experiences. If they do not might kill you,they will Definitely makes you and your memory stronger.Scientists at The University of Queensland have found, Bad experiences in anyone’s life; can boost memory formation about places. Dr Oliver Baumann from the Queensland Brain Institute found that associating negative imagery with specific locations activates a part of the brain responsible for forming memory of places during navigation – the parahippocampal cortex.

“This heightened recall occurs automatically, without people even being aware that the negative imagery is affecting their memories,” said Dr Baumann, who worked on the study in the QBI's Mattingley lab.

“It could serve as a cue for avoiding potential threats,” Dr Baumann said.

“Our findings show that emotions can exert a powerful influence on spatial and navigational memory for places. 

“In future we might be able to boost memory functions by triggering the positive side-effects of emotional arousal, while avoiding the need for negative experiences.”

For the research, Professor Jason Mattingley built a “virtual house” and staged events in each room unrelated to the subject navigating the house.

The events were designed to extract an emotional response – positive, negative, or neutral, and diverse in their rate of occurrence.

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“The events were illustrated using images from the International Affective Picture System library and included dramatic scenes of attack and threat, as well as more pleasant imagery,” Dr Baumann said. 

Participants viewed static images of the house without the emotional imagery; day after navigating through the house, while their neural activity was recorded using an MRI scanner.

“The results showed that emotional arousal exerted a powerful influence on memory by enhancing parahippocampal activity,” Dr Baumann said.