We constantly remember the stress of a job interview or the feeling of a moment when we thought we were humiliated, and we get negative feelings as if we were reliving that moment. Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) analyzed the reasons for this condition.
Throughout the history of humanity, every age and history is unique to itself. stress and problems it happened. As a matter of fact, this criterion did not depend only on the time period. Every geography, country, society, class, gender, certain age ranges have various problems that are unique or common. As humans, we sometimes experience problems arising from competition, sometimes from impossibilities, and sometimes from events that we cannot understand.
It is a concept that was defined in the 17th century and is frequently pronounced in modern life today. stressis the name of the negative feelings that are revealed in our inner world as a result of the problems we experience and that we reflect to other environments with our expression. Our memory, in which information, experiences and emotions are recorded, is more important than our generally positive or neutral experiences in our daily or long-term lives. our experiences of stress it presents us. This the reason Have you ever wondered?
A ‘stress test’ was performed:
Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) investigated the causes of this condition. The team led by Anne Bierbrauer, Professor Oliver Wolf and Professor Nikolai Axmacher of the RUB Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Trier Social Stress Test They analyzed moments of stress with a test called Using this test, the researchers tried to record a memory trace of a real event in their experiments. During the test, participants gave their speeches before an admissions committee, all of whom wore a neutral expression and did not give any positive feedback. job interview simulation they joined. This situation triggered a great deal of stress in the participants.
During the job interview simulation, the admissions committee used some everyday objects. For example, one of the committee members took a sip of his coffee. A day later, the researchers showed the objects to participants in both groups while recording their brain activity. Stressed out participants objects remembered better than the control group.
Along with the test, the researchers brain activity in the amygdala they examined. According to the data obtained, while the traces of some moments and images associated with stressful moments left a very similar memory trace, such a situation was not observed in the observations made in the control group. In other words, the human brain encodes and connects images of stressful moments in a ‘special and powerful’ way. This makes it easier to remember these images, which are separated from other images.
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As a result of the research, Nikolai Axmacher, who was in the research team, found that the committee members triggered stress during the interview and between objects and stressors He stated that there is a connection that is very important for memory. Another researcher, Oliver Wolf, experiences stressful experiences in our minds. detailed images While Anne Bierbrauer said that stressful memories are very similar to each other and that different memory representations can be the key to stronger memories.