Articles on memory

Article #1- New understanding of how we remember traumatic events
Basically this article explains how emotional events can lead to disturbing long term memories. Which means that having these traumatic events is necessary for us to survive. These events can be seen as being part of a major car accident, being in combat or abused repeatedly again and again for the rest of your life. Scientists have uncovered that a part of the brain known as the amygdala, a part associated with processing emotions, which scientists discovered the cell mechanics under the emotion formation process. The article also made a huge discovery about the noradrenaline, the brain's adrenaline, is capable of "affecting the amygdala by controlling chemical and electrical pathways in the brain responsible for memory formation."

Article #2- Early scents really do get "etched" in the brain
  This article explains that our childhood has a repercussion on our adulthood. To prove this, your appetite, even your inspiration was able to affect the adulthood by simply liking or disliking a smell. The experiment was tested with several different subjects and with an MRI to study in a more deeper way.

Article #3- Some Short term memories die suddenly, no fading
As an experiment, scientists experimented on how accurate visual short term visual memory really is and if the memory actually existed. This was tested on 12 adults. The test consisted on memory based on repeating a fast paced test for 150 times. When the memory was fresh, the results were pretty accurate, but when the memory faded, the results started to appear as if they were picked randomly.