According to researchers, a stronger short-term memory is positively associated with school attainment, job performance, and with lower probability of contracting Alzheimer’s disease (memory loss) and post-traumatic stress disorder. On the other hand, a weaker cognitive control among children can lead to problems with physical health, higher mortality rates, lower personal wealth and criminal offences 30 years later.
According to a Study:
- Study says,people who experience violent incidents in their life and often recall them.
- In addition, even those that happened a decade earlier.
- Furthermore, they may at an increasing risk of having short-term memory loss and poor cognitive control.
Professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, US:
- Pietro Ortoleva who is the Professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, US.
- He said,our results demonstrate that exposure to violence can have effects on cognitive functions.
- Besides, the obvious negative effects on the physical and psychological well-being.
- In addition, this may lead to vicious cycles.
- Furthermore, both poverty and violence hinder the ability to develop for a person or a group.
- Also, which in turn may generate further poverty and violence.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS):
- The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
- The team asked participants to recall an event that occurred in the last year.
- In addition, which caused anxiety or fear,explicitly hinting at violence.
- Including armed assault or witnessing murder.
- Furthermore, they were then asked to recall a sequence of geometrical figures.
- For testing short-term memory or their ability to store information after recalling such violent episodes.
- Those exposed to serious violence and recalled such an event performed poorly on this test, the researchers said.
- In addition, the participants had numerical sequences.
- In which a digit from one to four appeared one to four times.
- Also,they have to state the number of times the digits appear.
- The findings demonstrate the long-lasting effects of violence on cognition.
- Furthermore,memory recall and highlight the need for policies that provide proper therapy for those coping with violence.