14 Nov '20 16:14>1 edit
@petewxyz said“ It's interesting how many children think their first memories are from around the age where they develop verbal language”
It does sort of map on to models of the mind that suggest the observing self is not the whole self and probably does not have access to observe the whole self. It's interesting how many children think their first memories are from around the age where they develop verbal language. More likely that is the age where they symbolize the memories using that language now that it i ...[text shortened]... stored in other forms even though preverbal memories do seem to inform who you become in later life.
That is interesting isn’t it, is it that we cannot commit an event to our long term memory without being able to verbalise it either in an internal dialogue or by relating it to another.
There are memory enhancement techniques that rely on verbalisation of information in order to commit it to long term memory. I have used the technique of repeating the target information 7 times and it does seem to work for me.