Essay
Photography what we changes what we remember “Photography brings back the memories again”
The best way of reminding old memories is seeing old photographs which we take those pictures can be sad or of full of joy which can bring smile on your face or bring tears in your eyes.
The price of an image should be commensurate with how and where the image was taken. Although there are some phenomena in memory that are poorly understood, it is generally accepted that an item studied as a picture will be better remembered than an item studied as a word. Most of us are familiar with the expression, “a picture is worth a thousand words” and agree that memory for pictures is remarkable. Indeed in most situations, it would be wise to assume that pictures will be better remembered than words. One picture can contain enough information to convey many sentences. Children learn to follow stories in picture books before they are able to comprehend written text. Pictures are often universal and not restricted by knowledge of a specific language. For example, even if a traveler cannot read the local language, s/he can find the ladies’ or the men’s room in virtually any country by looking at picture signs. When pictures are studied, they elicit their verbal label and thus two representations or codes are stored in memory. In contrast, words do not automatically elicit a picture, and thus they have a relatively impoverished memory representation. The redundant representation for pictures makes their retrieval or recognition more probable compared to stimuli studied as words. First, we review the conditions under which pictures are better remembered than words. Next we discuss the conditions that produce the picture-inferiority effect. Pictures are better remembered than words. Pictures are more perceptually rich than words, and this visual distinctiveness lends them an advantage in memory. To the extent that subjects also encode the stimulus as a verbal label, subjects have
The best way of reminding old memories is seeing old photographs which we take those pictures can be sad or of full of joy which can bring smile on your face or bring tears in your eyes.
The price of an image should be commensurate with how and where the image was taken. Although there are some phenomena in memory that are poorly understood, it is generally accepted that an item studied as a picture will be better remembered than an item studied as a word. Most of us are familiar with the expression, “a picture is worth a thousand words” and agree that memory for pictures is remarkable. Indeed in most situations, it would be wise to assume that pictures will be better remembered than words. One picture can contain enough information to convey many sentences. Children learn to follow stories in picture books before they are able to comprehend written text. Pictures are often universal and not restricted by knowledge of a specific language. For example, even if a traveler cannot read the local language, s/he can find the ladies’ or the men’s room in virtually any country by looking at picture signs. When pictures are studied, they elicit their verbal label and thus two representations or codes are stored in memory. In contrast, words do not automatically elicit a picture, and thus they have a relatively impoverished memory representation. The redundant representation for pictures makes their retrieval or recognition more probable compared to stimuli studied as words. First, we review the conditions under which pictures are better remembered than words. Next we discuss the conditions that produce the picture-inferiority effect. Pictures are better remembered than words. Pictures are more perceptually rich than words, and this visual distinctiveness lends them an advantage in memory. To the extent that subjects also encode the stimulus as a verbal label, subjects have