- Oct 9, 2005
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Upscaling is now ubiquitous in games and videos. But this feature has long been present in our brains in a natural manner.
Case in point: I have recently been on a nostalgia trip, trying to track down the videos and audio jingles I had seen and heard in my childhood days.
Now that I'm revisiting the media I had experienced when I was in childhood, it seems that my memory of these videos and audio jingles are better than what these media were in original. It's almost as if my memories are the enhanced versions of the original source.
Does your memory of an old jingle sounds better and different than the original source material?
Do you remember old video games? I find that my memories of them have better graphics than those games did in reality. My revisit of these games often turn out to be bitter disappointments as I find myself jaded by these old graphics while my memories had upscaled version of these graphics.
I guess it works only when there is a sufficient temporal distance between the viewing of a media and one's memories of it. The greater the time duration between one's viewing of a media and one's memories, the higher the upscaling provided by the brain. Try remembering an old jingle you had last heard in your childhood and revisiting today, I'm sure you will find your memory of them is often better than what they originally were.
Does your brain possess this natural upscaling feature?
Case in point: I have recently been on a nostalgia trip, trying to track down the videos and audio jingles I had seen and heard in my childhood days.
Now that I'm revisiting the media I had experienced when I was in childhood, it seems that my memory of these videos and audio jingles are better than what these media were in original. It's almost as if my memories are the enhanced versions of the original source.
Does your memory of an old jingle sounds better and different than the original source material?
Do you remember old video games? I find that my memories of them have better graphics than those games did in reality. My revisit of these games often turn out to be bitter disappointments as I find myself jaded by these old graphics while my memories had upscaled version of these graphics.
I guess it works only when there is a sufficient temporal distance between the viewing of a media and one's memories of it. The greater the time duration between one's viewing of a media and one's memories, the higher the upscaling provided by the brain. Try remembering an old jingle you had last heard in your childhood and revisiting today, I'm sure you will find your memory of them is often better than what they originally were.
Does your brain possess this natural upscaling feature?
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