Also, a large number of claims come down to the word of the lawyer against the word of the client. Whatever an individual's memory strengths, research suggests that it is common for people, particularly from their late 30s onwards, to experience some anxiety about becoming forgetful. Memory is one of several information processing functions of the brain we call thinking and its two essential components are storage and recall of information. Scientists are just beginning to understand how the brain makes all this possible. One recent study suggests that brain systems for storage and recall of events are quite separate.
Storage is limited to five to nine items.
In other words recalled data is not the original. The original has in fact been destroyed in processing. It seems that, in the absence of diseases such as dementia or chronic alcoholism only some memory functions are affected by age while others are completely unaffected. Further, those memory functions affected by age can be affected by lifestyle, health and attitudinal factors at any age. It seems that as we get older, immediate memory and lifelong memory tend to remain intact.