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Why travel memories play an important part in helping to develop our personality - Now to Love
Travel memories have such an intense effect that they remain with us our entire lives. Neuropsychologist Lutz Jäncke reveals how holiday experiences stay in our memory.
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
These are probably the most famous words ever written by French philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Albert Camus. But they could just as easily have come from a neuroscientist.
This is because recent brain research has found that memories of summer days, sunny holidays, adventures and distant lands all harbour an incredible force that we can use to our advantage.
Travel memories have such an intense effect that they remain with us our entire lives. Neuropsychologist Lutz Jäncke reveals how holiday experiences stay in our memory.
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
These are probably the most famous words ever written by French philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Albert Camus. But they could just as easily have come from a neuroscientist.
This is because recent brain research has found that memories of summer days, sunny holidays, adventures and distant lands all harbour an incredible force that we can use to our advantage.