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Human Performance

2.7.1.5 Long-Term memory

Long-term memory has unlimited storage capacity. Once a memory is stored

here, it takes illness or injury to remove it. This memory is organized and

structured and receives input from short-term memory.

To transfer information from short-term memory to long-term memory
requires attention, context, and repetition. When this happens, it is called

consolidation.

Long-term memory has access to an astonishing amount of information – from

knowledge about ourselves to our understanding of the world around us.

Events and experiences are deeply processed in the brain's hippocampus.

It is here that the brain transfers new information into permanent memory.

What we have stored here does not just disappear on its own; it must be pushed

out.

Our daily life is full of routines and situations that we have experienced many

times, and we often overlook details. Usually, this does not have catastrophic

consequences, but as a pilot, such a mistake could be disastrous.

Part of long-term memory is influenced by expectations and wishful thinking.

This is one reason why interviews after accidents should be conducted as soon

as possible after the incident, as this will provide the most accurate information.

Over time, memory will unconsciously change to what one thinks they should

have done in the situation, rather than what they actually did.

2.7.1.6 When are we most likely to remember?

It requires a greater active effort from the brain to store information in long-

term memory.

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