It is known that the young ducks and chickens, while in the egg, they hear and remember the voice of my mother-mother hen. After birth, they accurately distinguish it from the other person's квохтанья. Yes that birds! American conductor Boris Broth, getting acquainted with some of the pieces are already knew from the violin part. It turned out that they learned, being pregnant, his mother!
The child really remember all that I have heard before birth? No, not all, but only that meets certain conditions. From them also depend on the peculiarities of memory.
Memoirs of an ovum
Scientists put your experiment: half of the drop of water, where swarmed with infusoria, lit, and then let the current. Single-celled fled to shadow the safe side drops. After some time infusoria began to run away into the shadows, as soon as a drop of a lit up, not waiting for a shock! Have organisms that do not have a brain, you can develop a conditioned reflex? Sensation! In fact it was not quite the memory, and how it might workpiece. The infusoria, staying in a state of stress due to electric shock, extremely aggravated sensitivity. And they began to avoid even the slightest irritation, including light.
What does this have to do with your toddler? The most direct! After all, he had consisted of only a few cells. And reacted to the adverse conditions of increased sensitivity.
What was the beginning of the pregnancy? The problem? Is it then surprising excessive irritability crumbs? Not перевоспитывайте, don't scold, and create a relaxed environment and stable conditions!
The habits of the embryo
Researchers from the Netherlands seated 93 pregnant women in terms of 30-38 weeks in a comfortable chair and gave each of the stomach vibroacoustic signals. The kids respond to stimulus movements. After several repeated signals they ceased to respond to them. Getting used to. And the habit - this is the simplest form of this memory. And this habit continued and 10 minutes later. This is an example of short-term memory. And what about the long-term? The experiment was repeated after a month. The crumbs which were subjected to the annoyance of vibroacoustic signals at 36-38 weeks of fetal life, almost did not react to signals a month later!
Therefore, they are capable of and to long-term memory!
If a pregnant woman goes to bed at one and the same time, despite a TV and the keepers of the household, and pipsqueak after birth will be able to fall asleep, not demanding special conditions! As you can to teach the baby to the taste of garlic, onions and spices, using them during the gestation period.
We are somewhere met?
Habit is a procedural view of memory. We all know how to cook a soup or turn on the television, but hardly remember who and under what circumstances taught us this. And that's when the episodic memory? The one that keeps the memories of the trip with his father in the circus, on the celebration of the day of birth?
In 6 weeks the fetus is laid the hippocampus area of the brain, without which there can accumulate long-term memories. But she still immature.
In the third trimester of pregnancy and in the first year of life memory holds a memory without further reinforcements only a few days (in the second year of " a few weeks, on the third - up to several months to four years of memory stores information about a year, and to seven years - about three). However, if you напоете lullaby crumbs for two days before the birth, he did not know her, when born. To the memory stuck, you need to sing a song three months in a row. That is why the American conductor remembered party violins: my mother is a musician hear them for long. Therefore, a baby begins to get to know people and look for missing the usual only after 3-4 months after birth. But the more you deal with it, showing one and the same (toys, household items) and accompanied by one and the same sounds or words, the more links will be formed in the brain of the son or daughter and the stronger will be its memory.
Want to baby after birth recognize the melody, a story or a poem? Begin to acquaint with them not earlier than six weeks and no later than the start of the third trimester. Pause between repetitions should not exceed a few days! And do not be offended, if crumb not recognize you after a week of travel. You're a good parent, just these are the characteristics of the memory of the baby.
Leo Tolstoy and amnesia
Don't worry if childhood crumbs was not in the Palace, and your family has not been exemplary-indicative. Virtually none of this kid doesn't remember because of the so-called children's amnesia. The hippocampus still so imperfect that his work is similar to the elaboration of the canvas, on which after 4-6 years will form the patterns of episodes from the life, songs and poems, the rules of grammar and multiplication tables.
The main thing now - education the maximum number of neural connections with the help develop habits and conditional reflexes. For example, when the words «as long as» teach полугодовалого baby swing handle, «clap-clap» - clap, «tuk-tuk» - pounding spoon on the table or rattle on the side of the bed. These skills will not be useful in adult life, but will make the brain more Mature. And on the basis of the generated links will be able to consolidate all of the information, which will be perceived in the future.
However, there are cases, when a person remembers something that happened to him in 2-3 years of age. Usually it's something much hurt emotionally: scared, surprised, delighted. And Leo Tolstoy remembered himself to one year. This phenomenon is explained by the same, and that his gift of a writer, and the amazing memory for details. He perceived all that was happening to him, much more acute and emotional than most people.
Want to give their son or daughter of an encyclopedic knowledge in the cradle? To teach how to read and count before you go? Apply all the material unusual, putting different feelings in intonation and facial expression! Otherwise it will be forgotten in 4-6 years. Although memory in General all the same will be strengthened.
When submitting the same information is stored, that was the last, and the first one is erased. Connect the crumbs with the world is very diverse!