Brain Research - LTCY 199 - Summer 2009 - Remember to Repeat

1. Remember to Repeat By: Clark Higgins

2. A memory storage system Unlimited capacity A few weeks to an entire life span (Warren, 1997) Long-term Memory

6. Short-term memory to long-term memory through the hippocampus Shape of a seahorse Makes the long-term memories, but doesn’t store them If both hippocampi are destroyed, then you can never learn anything new (Dongier, 2002) Hippocampus

7. New facts or memories are remembered by running them through the hippocampus many times over. Repeating Mnemonic devices (Dongier, 2002) Remember to Repeat

8. These memories are not lost, instead are misplaced Memories that have been restored did not form new forebrain neurons. These neurons just grew new connections to the others. This rewiring will bring back lost memories. (Shay, 2007) Lost Memories

9. Memories are divided up and stored in many regions inside the brain. Memories make up the connections between neurons This is why a smell might trigger an old memory Storage of Memories

10. The process in which we find information in our long-term memory, then transfer it back to the working memory We retrieve these long-term memories triggered by the new information, then store both of them together. Two types: recall and recognize (Wagner, 2005) Retrieval of Memories

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