How We Remember: Improving Memory Understanding Age Related Memory Loss
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How we remember
You just saw a new film, and stored it — along with other "data" that you encountered today — in your brain. But where, exactly, did it go? Is your brain's system for storing memories a "memory bank," a single repository of all the sights, sounds, and facts that have made a strong enough impression for you to remember them? Or is it a kind of library, with different memories categorized by something akin to the Dewey decimal system, and then stored in different "stacks" from which they can be retrieved?
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