Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world

[@soulreaperichig0]

1:23 - 4 components of working memory 1. Stores immediate experiences and a little bit of knowledge. 2. Reaches back into our long term memories and processes it in line with current goals. 3. Working memory capacity leverages. 4. Great for communication and building narratives around conversations. 6:45 - Strategies: 1. We need to repeat/Practice it. 2. Think elaborately and repeatedly. 3. Rather than connecting new to known, we have to connect everything we known to the new and build connections till it becomes meaningful. 4. Use images/ think in images 5 Organization - Structure things we're doing in ways that it makes sense. 6 Support - Use external supports like charts, tables, etc. until it becomes second nature. 9:06 - Take home message We learn what we process. If we're not processing, we aren't learning.

[@marymathew7480]

Wowww... u are so thoughtful

[@shamansprout4394]

Thank you, a very good method to commit things to memory is to first make it understandable and accessible like how your putting it in a format that is easier to approach so thank you

[@shamansprout4394]

Mr.Sceptic I thank your from bottom of my heart

[@user-yr1du7oq9g]

i appreciate you. marry me?

[@mmills8989]

Thank you so much for this!!!

[@mattd1509]

I literally have had the five words in his video ingrained into my mind for like 3 years now and I don’t know whyy.

[@kartikmessner2868]

Hahah

[@sirbattlecat]

I couldn't even have them ingrained for 5 min...

[@TheOne-jg7fd]

Lol same here now

[@Nibbles667]

I remembered those words all the way to the end and I didn't even need them. Now I can't forget them. I do love the idea of driving down a long highway with a forest on one side and Saturn on the other. Listening to music from the radio that uses electrodes while looking in the rear vision mirror and watching my past fade away into the background.

[@tammiemendoza9718]

lol me too!!!

[@_r0b]

I did a memory palace too. 😄

[@schizo4725]

What he says at the end is completely true. From what I can tell, most of everyone including myself who remembered those words to the end did so by doing something like painting a bizarre picture including those words, thereby processing them.

[@TimesNuRoman]

I feel like this is the big issue with people, technology and social media today: people are so preoccupied with recording life, rather than processing/living life in the moment. Great talk.

[@shotglancez]

I concur

[@williamarmes9978]

i am replying to a comment written 2 years ago have fun and stay cool dude

[@catbugg]

Still true to this day :'(

[@benjaminwiner6220]

This is a fantastic comment. Really hits the nail on the head.

[@anisateyah9870]

@@williamarmes9978 am replying to a comment read and four years ago have fun and stay cool dude 💕

[@MJosephMurphy]

Long Covid messed with my working memory. It also gave me a passion for understanding how brains work. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@lalalaso333]

"If we're not processing life, we're not living it." So true and so cruel😢

[@proje778]

Çalışan hafızanın 4 bileşeni vardır. 1. Anlık deneyimleri ve biraz bilgiyi depolar. 2. Uzun süreli hafızamıza geri döner ve mevcut hedefler doğrultusunda işler. 3. Çalışan bellek kapasitesinden yararlanır. 4. İletişim ve konuşmalar etrafında anlatılar oluşturmak için harikadır. Çalışan hafızanın sınırlı bir kapasitesi olduğundan ondan yararlanarak bazı stratejiler yardımıyla başarıya dönüştürebiliriz. Stratejiler: 1. Hemen Tekrarlamak (bir saat veya bir hafta sonra değil) - Yazmak, not çıkarmak, tartışmak gibi yollarla sürekli pratik yapmak. 2. Ayrıntılı ve açıklayıcı bir şekilde tekrar tekrar düşünmek. 3. Yeni bilgiyi eski bilgiye bağlamak yerine, bildiğimiz her şeyi yeni bilgiye bağlamalı ve anlamlı hale gelene kadar bağlantılar kurmak. 4. Resimleri kullanmak. Resimlerle yazmak ve resimlerle düşünmek. 5. Organizasyon. Yaptığımız şeyleri bir anlam çıkaraca şekilde planlamak. 6. Destek. Resimler, şemalar, tablolar ile desteklemek. SONUÇ: İşlediğimizi öğreniyoruz. Eğer hayatı işlemiyorsak, yaşamıyoruz demektir.

[@alwaysbeeurself]

Wow, I love that last sentence at 9:00, the final take home message: What we process, we learn, if we're not processing life, we're not living it.

[@lalodetarariras]

One of the most helpful TED talks I've seen in long time.

[@ninoenriquez7553]

I still memorized the 5 words: Tree, highway, mirror, Saturn, electrode. I wouldn't want to explain how because I use the most bizarre ways to remember things and that's how I process them haha. Moral of the story is to connect something in your life to the present moment for that moment to have meaning.

[@KaneyoshiSouji]

Short, but straight to the point. I really enjoyed it.

[@bestofcritics]

If you are not processing life, you are not living it. Live your life. I often go into so called the "Hibernate mode" where I would like to just watch some TVs and more to try and forget about working memory cause they suck, and not feel like enjoying or meaningful. But once I change my mind to somethings more valuable and structured in life, you understand that you are able to process your life and find real drive and dedication to live your life. Just love TED, and hope to be on stage and share knowledge one day :)

[@sutikshnadubey]

Very helpful talk. every bit. Esp the 5 points solution explained in second half of the talk to improve working memory. THANKS!!! I usually come to youtube to watch ted talks, as it is faster. but now going to ted back, and take notes from transcript.

[@Babayaga_themanoffocus]

Process existence immediately at the moment. "Do I agree with him/What can I learn from him" Practise Think elaborately and illustratively Use imagery and think about in images Organisation it by finding meaning Support the change Process the life

[@AbidingHopeMentalHealthCoach]

Has he gave the words, I placed them visually in my mind in various places. The tree just left of center, the highway to my right - there actually was a highway to my right when he was talking - I looked up at the moon and thought of Saturn being beyond it somewhere, etc. I remembered all 5

[@AbidingHopeMentalHealthCoach]

In fact, over five minutes after finishing the video, I can still remember all five words, in order. I think this is partly due to the fact that I didn’t just hold them in working memory, but created a memory palace of sorts into which I placed them. That said, I think my working memory may be slightly better than average, because I do a lot of transcription work. I transcribe videos, playing them at half speed and typing really fast, pausing as needed. It will take me about two hours to get an accurate transcription of a 30 minute video, because once I have finished transcribing it, I go back and I listen to it again and correct any mistakes I made. Have not done a statistical analysis, but I expect that my accuracy, not counting typos, is about 95% or better. If I type a word wrong, once the typo is corrected it’s an accurate transcription, but occasionally I will miss a word, or even a phrase. That’s the 5%. I catch them on the second listen. But my point is, I do not type each word as it is spoken. I type a few words behind the speaker. I try not to get more than two lines of closed caption text behind, and if I do I will pause the video. But two lines of closed caption text seems to be what I can hold in my memory and transfer through my fingers into a word document, while I’m listening to what I will type in a minute. It does help to be able to type very quickly! I believe it has increased my working memory. When I was a kid, I had to write poems or paragraphs of prose for penmanship class. This would’ve been about third or fourth grade, when I was learning cursive, and even after that. I don’t remember the exact number of words I can hold in my memory at that time, but it was probably four or five. Meaning that I would read four or five words, and then I would write them, and then I would read the next four or five. I could not go one more word Than whatever the number was. Frustrated me. I’m not quite sure what the number is now, but I’m pretty sure it’s more than four or five! But the reality is, if I’m writing by hand, the number of words I can hold in my working memory is smaller than I’m typing. Typing is so much faster! Especially since I’m over 80 words a minute most of the time. I can only write about 12 words a minute my hand.

[@iSwagz88]

Anybody else get here from a Super learning course on Udemy?

[@jgreeny15]

Yeah same here!

[@mariaeloisahyenavillazor1578]

Hola fellow Super learners!

[@eno8314]

Present!

[@PavanKumar-uw5jm]

how is ur progress? is there any improvement in the learning speed?

[@jonjfm]

getting started from Super learner

[@MichaelChernik-zf2fy]

My short term memory needs links---like I walk into a room and I ask" Why did I come into here?" I have to walk back into the room where I first had the thought and it seems to be lingering in the air and is picked up by my brain then I can walk back into the room to retrieve why I went into. It is so much fun getting older----

[@mandypac2854]

Woke up to this new TED talk on my KZbin feed- breakfast.

[@PhatRichardTran]

Damn that closing statement was deep

[@uproariousRIOT]

i thought he was going to ask what the five words were again at the end of the video

[@Patrick-cy2zh]

+alejandro ramirez lol

[@bluemamba5317]

@Luis Castillo Do you still remember the words? xD

[@uproariousRIOT]

Blue Mamba unfortunately 6 years later I do not

[@tregubabe]

It was hard to focus on what he was talking about because i was trying to remember the words for the end of the video!!!

[@lemiless]

I was ready for that

[@ChrissREPoland]

When he said 5 words i Just immagined those words as an full image . There is highway , next to it a tree with a mirror on it in the background there is saturn. And electrodes are on the road. I have a good image memmory. So probobly If I wanted I could remmember that for as long as I want. But at the same time i have problem to remmember other concepts . Like names or phone numbers. Yet i can remmember faces of persons I saw weeks ago for a few seconds.

[@TheGerogero]

Nice lol! That was exactly how I pictured it too.

[@Tha3l]

for names - think up a story for the person. with good image memory this should be easy

[@thelordmemnoch]

Am I the only weirdo that remembered the mirror by picturing Vanity Smurf kissing it? I pictured him standing in the middle of the highway with a tree in the middle of it and I didn't picture Saturn nor Electrode, but I remembered them anyway.

[@dan20man]

I usually remember names by saying to myself I ' they have the same name as ..." and I picture that person. just dont ask me to remember surnames. throws this solution out the window

[@kaveersinanan3957]

definitely; for example, a person undergoing a neuro-physiological experiment involving electrodes (word-1) implanted on the scalp or brain, with stimulation causing recall of a memory about driving on the highway(2) in a Saturn (3) automobile, noticing a tree (4) in your rear/side mirror (5).

[@hHarVv]

184 Electrode Saturn mirror highway tree Processing is living - live life. Absolutely great quote, simple but delivers volume. Processing is putting in the effort, doing the work, and reflecting on it, but no ones really living anymore because we’d rather skip the effort and delay the reflection bcuz they’re so fascinated with the instant ability to record it - the game use to be “how can I understand this as thoroughly as possible?” but has been lost in translation to “how can I grab as much information as possible?”

[@ReallyEpicPerson]

Great message! Loved this. I admire Ted videos so much! You guys are all doing a great thing.

[@rohitkavathekar3701]

That explains a lot. My god awful working memory coupled with my ADHD is why the world makes little to no sense at all.

[@grimgrog]

Great ending message

[@VanessaKruegerCordeiro-cr9pu]

Que maravilhosoooo!!!!!!!!!

[@joelmacartosa3564]

Prático e esclarecedor! Amei!

[@jpHasABadHandle]

ivanalesi Me too, although not exactly like yours. Mine was more of a scenery where i'm not involved in myself.

[@Overonator]

I have an alternate extra explanation of why that guy stopped to text, having nothing to do with memory. He simply couldn't read and type when the little screen he was using was bouncing around as he walked. So he stopped to stop the screen from bouncing.

[@ksceriath8346]

bouncing around? hahaha... :D

[@THEmickTHEgun]

You probably are right you know. But this talk was still good on the topic.

[@SierraHotelBandit]

As he said in the beginning, the scene could be approached from the multitasking perspective. Multitasking is actually a word for the ability to skillfully bounce our attention from one process to another, the brain is "speed-tasking" so to say, as it is always still focusing on one task at a time. The guy with the phone was simply not into multitasking, or as he said, his working memory was focused on one action.

[@SaloniRao18]

i couldn't focus on anything he said because i was trying to remember tree, car, highway, saturn, electrode

[@Hgulix62]

It's tree, highway, mirror, Saturn and electrode ..

[@bhavannamunni]

Hi i also have this problem . What wrong with us ?

[@mindfuleats4517]

I created an image and that meant I only had to hold onto one thing

[@AliBitarafan]

It's a practical lesson, something you can apply to your daily tasks

[@peanutbutter369]

I remembered by imagining the following... The ELECTRODES in the car igniting and powering the engine of a car which is headed down the HIGHWAY. To the right I see a TREE and from the drivers seat I can see the rear view MIRROR. The car is a SATURN (its a company).

[@Holmathome]

Lol that is much wordier than mine, I told myself that the Electrodes were driving a Saturn down a Highway and Saw a Tree through the rearview Mirror.

[@ik04]

Brilliant! Most of us are completely unaware of this concept. Well presented by a very effective speaker!

[@tsummerlee]

This was an excellent presentation about epistemology. Specifically Crow Epistemology theory! Fun!

[@Ggma8989]

Elaboration - the best memory technique

[@jud0208]

. that's right i think you have to live life in your way

[@curious9843]

Thank you 😉

[@ordinarypeople5273]

This is a good way of understanding ADHD inattentive type.

[@bhavannamunni]

Hi i’m also have ADD but i wonder your opinion . Can you explain it ? For me , after watching this video , i thought my ADD is related with video because I can not retain info and use immediately or think of about use it for long term goal .My mind procrasinate process info and use it

[@MarelisaFabrega]

Fantastic talk, and the lecturer is very likeable.

[@athulkrishnac.v8563]

"live life"👍

[@georgep5590]

Great talk, I finally get why the superlearner course sent me here after reading a bunch of articles from different authors.

[@POKARJITESH]

why?

[@gracehao5537]

Baddeley's four-component working memory model: the central executive, phonological loop, episodic buffer and visuospatial sketchpad

[@gregstark6842]

Watch Ted talks at 2x the speed. It's so efficient and it never gets boring. One actually focuses on it. Try it guys :)

[@thereap5348]

always do it

[@abdul2009]

I was just waiting for him to ask what those five words are😂

[@kadarngo3239]

I still remembered person, women, man, camera, and tv

[@imanetork8615]

Thank you

[@usna1977]

i have hd and my latest psych eval said that my working memory was not working so well. the items were getting in their location in the brain (if you repeat the list later verbally I can tell you yes or no 100%).. but the subcortex processing side of this was not woking a fast as it used to. (if I have to figure it out myself - not so good). Also HD affects my hearing which is very very bad too. So in this video... the words were and I heard this: 1 Tree/Tree, 2 Highway/Highway; 3 Mirror/Deer or Year; 4 Saturn/Month; 5 Electrode/couldnt' remember at all anything. So IN ADDITION TO WORKING MEMORY... WE HAVE OTHER ISSUES TOO... LIKE AUDITORY PROCESSING. It's very very hard to do both. I wonder if you try to focus on the memory and then you focus even less on the hearing. Remember the person "texting and walking" that sat down. Couldn't do 2 things at same time?

[@bhavannamunni]

What is hd ?

[@indian3021]

I am having problem with strong memory its very hard to move on from bad experience I have to force it to go away, but when I remember those detailed memory scene it hurts a lot, also people feel offended that I write all the things and remembered them and taunt them, while this are just normal occurrence, I use it get marks, but I lost many concept, now its hard

[@victoriamuthoni9198]

Absolutely phenomenon

[@troykirkwood4294]

excellent, of great vale Peter Doolittle, thank you

[@Plumbyday]

Its funny how when he gave the 5 words to remember that I made it an image in my head. Then he says later to make images in your head...

[@চলচ্চিত্রকথা]

did the same. Really easy to remember

[@rprasannakumar]

"'If we're not processing life, we're not living it. Live life " ... cool !

[@katherin13able]

в переводе ошибка. Речь идет не о кратковременной памяти, а о рабочей памяти.

[@wowumao]

胖胖的大叔，真可爱。。。

[@NordTutorials]

So, how did this relate to the guy on the sidewalk? As opposed to multitasking, how does working memory play into this scenario? I don't know if he ever got around to explaining that.

[@LifeSavingDefense]

You are Texter could actually be really good at texting and walking but understood that he couldn't see in front of him without holding the phone directly in front of his face which would've blocked his vision and he wouldn't be able to see as he walked so it was safer to stop walking and to text while standing Or he was just lazy and didn't wanna hold his arms up that high... I'm not saying you're wrong I'm just offering a different point of view as to why people do things... I would repeat myself but I can't remember what I just said because of my time in the military in 1990 in the middle of the gulf war which the VA in the military simply deny we have memory problems and I keep forgetting to follow it up to find a VA person who actually knows how memory works. I went to war in 1990 with a photographic memory but came back with a melted camera and unfortunately the VA has gone digital so none of it works

[@unworthyservant4447]

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[@destroyaaaaAAAa]

worms

[@master.3097]

did anybody else just kept waiting for him to ask about the five things and just wasted 9min

[@animeshrastogi163]

What if your working memory is impaired to the extent that its difficult to process immediately what is in front of you by relating to your previous knowledge. What if it takes a lot of time for you to recall your already built knowledge that by the time you recall it you almost loose the track of what is happening at that point of time. If we can’t process what we are seeing and listening immediately , can’t we have meaning in our life?

[@abcmaya]

i always think of our brain as a harddrive and the working memory as the ram.

[@MrJames007G]

Or more accurately, long-term memory would be similar to a HDD, short-term memory similar to RAM and working memory would be most like the cache.

[@abcmaya]

JZA ahhhhh.... you're right!

[@prajaktajoshi3929]

so what were those words for? the tree, highway mirror, Saturn and electrode?

[@DuDeMBR]

I'm giving n-back a try. It makes you feel horrible at first but once you progress you feel awesome. I pretty much just started and got to n=4 so far. Anyone with experience care to share fit it helps?

[@abhishekc3556]

Has n back helped you with working memory?

[@DuDeMBR]

@@abhishekc3556 Pretty funny that you should ask now. I didn't do it for long enough but just picked it up yesterday again. So I'm afraid I can't give you an answer yet. I feel like I picked it up one or two levels higher though

[@DuDeMBR]

@@abhishekc3556 Give it a go, it might make you feel uncomfortable but push through.

[@abhishekc3556]

@@DuDeMBR thanks for the reply. I've just started using the dual n back app. I'm on level 3. Hopefully I get past that.

[@ThePiachu]

You could say, "Live life and process \\//" ;)

[@SriMohan]

Very nice

[@vidurawijerathna1964]

YO Doctor Doolittle!

[@user-zx9xi1mg2k]

Vidura Wijerathna Lmfao I thought the same thing hahahaha!!

[@AntiQuaz]

2:05

[@sharonespinoza3388]

what is the thesis for this video ?

[@ubermenschification]

For those interested in this subject, you might want to check Thinking Fast and Slow.

[@emnahajamor6755]

nice ending message :)

[@Vexlulz]

I only forgot mirror and ugh primary and recency effects are mocking me

[@c.683]

What is the difference between working memory and short-term memory?

[@KatWillows2310]

Short term memory is where you store a small amount of information that's in an active, ready, state. You don't manipulate anything in short-term memory, or really do anything with it. Working memory is like a notepad in your brain- this is where you manipulate information and put concepts together. Working memory can retain a little information- but it's not for storage purposes. If you want a metaphor, your working memory is a desk, short term memory is the small filing cabinet underneath it, and long term is the archive that's in the other room.

[@Paradoxreaper]

Does anyone else want the speaker to get his doctorate?

[@calligraphytw]

工作記憶，即對接受到的資訊進行加工的過程，解碼、編碼、譯碼的交互作用區域。

[@Nachos4587]

Amazingg talk!!! Loved it!

[@Kevin7557]

To correct Peter, a Coma is where you can not respond and lose a great deal of control of the body leaving it in a state of lacking in reaction. Many Coma patients are fully aware of the world around them during their coma. They can hear, understand who is around them, but lack the capacity to interact with this person.

[@genericballs]

Makes video on working memory, forgets to mention the 5 words WE were supposed to remember X-D great vid tho

[@sarahdunlop8631]

He did mention them again 😆

[@IncrediMouse]

Translation: You have a brain . Use it . Clap clap. The end.

[@miwadaiphonicsandaojuku]

8:42

[@gunasheela3518]

good

[@xthe_moonx]

the doctors said my working memory is better then 97 people out of 100.

[@Baud2Bits]

So is mine, but only 50% of the time

[@PaulKnutsonSther]

***** Heyy, Baud. How nice to see you over here :)

[@lunytrickz]

true, we're replacing or memory with tech, and dumb down doing so

[@kurdboy7732]

what we proses we learn

[@ChessCo.1]

The best working memory game is dual n back and the best version of dual n back that I have become so addicted to is the "Brain training chess" app. It is available on iphone and ipad, check it out

[@The3nlightened0ne]

this guy is fucking awesome

[@destroyaaaaAAAa]

ted just be letting anyone talk

[@x305tillidiex]

forgot what this video was about...

[@r.r.family5806]

i like it !!!!

[@Cookiemonster-xi3zw]

by the time he finished labelling the 5 things I only remembered tree and Saturn

[@semehirhachuseyin9934]

the tap is more testy than bottled water

[@faisalazamkhan3240]

how to improve our working memory ?

[@justusbosch2002]

Anyone come here thinking it was something about Dr Doolittle

[@MichaelPaoli]

Okay now, so when am I supposed to forget that random list of 5 things? ;-)

[@jonjfm]

There is a gigantic tree crossed by a highway. At the end there is a mirror reflecting Saturn supported by a electrode

[@WTFBros3]

A Tree with an Electrode in front of a Mirror on a Highway on Saturn

[@alladinbadlink2953]

I dont think that doing this simple word test at home, in a comfy chair is quite the same as beeing in public and exposed to dozens if little distractions of every day life.

[@ManInMostlyBlack]

I don't think anyone have claimed that

[@zadeh79]

Working memory has a limited capacity, and can only deal with small chunks at a time. It doesn't help put things together. Long-term memory orders and selects ideas, and feeds it into conscious thought.

[@sakhi111]

i agree, but some people are born with good memory so lucky THEM :)

[@crisislord00]

SO basically working memory is like the RAM on a p.c.

[@ImDrizzt]

I didnt quite hear him when he said the 3rd thing, so I pretended he said manure. So I kinda remember it all without too much effort, but not sure if the 3rd one counts lol

[@HunMASK]

tree, highway, mirror, Saturn, electrode