Nuestra memoria - Un sistema de almacenamiento fenomenal | DW Documental

[music] Memory, the vast storage space in our brain. We learn more easily by visualizing things in our minds. It's always surprising when people are at the train station and look at their ticket seven times wondering, "Do I have to go to platform 7 now?" So I simply tell them, "Yes, imagine, there are the seven dwarfs on the platform."

They say, "Yes, exactly, those were the seven dwarfs. I'm not going to look. There were eight dwarfs or six." There were seven. If we don't repeat it, we forget it. [music] If I haven't rehearsed the text of a piece for a long time and I perform it again, it comes to me automatically at

the moment I perform it, because my body has retained it. Memory has a lot to do with our personality, because the conscious and unconscious, what is stored, so to speak, influences our daily life. I'm still searching for myself. Sometimes it's like being two different people, only both are in the same body. We remember what moved us.

Our memory is the guiding thread of our existence. I would venture to say that we are our memory and that this defines us. An invisible network in our brain, but responsible for many vital functions. How can we get the most out of our memory? I always say that the brain is like a

muscle. If you don't use it, it will atrophy, but it can also be reactivated through training. [music] [singing]

Memories of the past influence how I feel in the present. They are a fundamental part of my personality. I am Hann Monier and I am the director of Clinical Neurobiology. This department is located at the University Hospital of Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Center . [music] I am interested in what happens in our