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Long Term Memory

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Storing memories is a confusing subject considering the fact that your body can not physically store the memories itself. With that in mind, how does someone store memories? With everything else that the human body does, it is a mix of different things/parts of the human body working together to accomplish the same goal. This is still a developing theory as many other things related to the human body but we are certain that once the memories are obtained, they either go to short-term memories or go to long-term memories. Furthermore, how are memories obtained and store within the human mind? First of all, memories are groups of neurons in their own specific region. For example, long-term neurons are groups of neurons that are distributed throughout the cortex that are stored in the way …show more content…

Memories are a series of fired off neurons that are associated with a certain event or whatever it may be. To explain this concept, as the saying goes “it is like riding a bike” as you never forget to ride a bike, the memory may be stored as the following sequence: 1-0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1 (1 being a fired neutron and 0 being ga break). Furthermore, when you would like to ride a bike, that following sequence (as an example) would be fired throughout the cortex. These are signals are fired off by a chemical releasement/unbalancement that causes your mind to begin its phases of memory. Those three phases are what scientists refer to them as: sensory memory, working/short-term memories, then last but not least long-term memory. As previously mentioned, this work process has been triggered by an external event to the person.

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