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Memory Process: How Do We Store and Retrieve Our Memories?
The Memory Process consists of encoding, storage and retrieval. In this post, we look at the storage and retrieval process.
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Memory Process: How Do We Encode Our Memories?
Have you ever moved house or transferred your possessions to storage? What does it involve? The memory process (also called the anatomy of a memory) can be explained by taking the example of moving house-hold inventory to long-term storage.
This post looks at what encoding a memory is and explores strategies for effective encoding.
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Long-Term Memory: What is that Elephantine Memory?
Long-term memory involves actual physical changes made to the brain and is virtually limitless. So how does one go about acquiring an elephantine memory? What are the secrets of long-term memory?
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The Truth about Short-Term Memory
Have you see Memento where Guy Pearce has difficulties creating new long-term memories? What that means is that he only has his short-term memory working for him. Think of short-term memory as a temporary holding place for your memories.
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Types of Memory: Importance of Sensory Memory
I have a tough time remembering names even though I can easily remember faces, events, ideas and concepts. Does that mean I have poor memory? The answer to that is not so straightforward. In this post, I shall explore sensory memory and why that is so important.
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What every Brain Owner should know about their Memory
Our brain is not so different from a computer after all. Here’s a closer look at the similarities between our memory and that of a computer.
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How does meditation impact brain plasticity?
Brain plasticity teaches us that the brain is constantly evolving. 70% of our brain cells change every day. Meditation changes the brain in many ways.
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Brain Awareness Week is from March 14-20, 2011. This post is a collection of short videos that can be very useful in classroom sessions and for students to learn on their own.
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Does your brain support multi-tasking?
Everyone knows that multi-tasking means doing more than one task at the same time. Let’s face it, all of us multi-task fairly regularly. But did you know that there are different kinds of multi-tasking?
Neuroscientists are beginning to accumulate plenty of research findings that indicate the second kind of multi-tasking is not conducive to optimum brain function. What are their conclusions?
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