How Short Term Memory Work

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HOW DOES MEMORY WORK
Short term memory is an auditory system, You can keep 5-9 pieces of information in your short term memory at once. (Study.com) memory is far more complex and more elusive than that -- and that it is located not in one particular place in the brain, but is instead a brain-wide process that seems to be a single memory is actually a complex construction. If you think of an object -- say, a pen -- your brain retrieves the object's name, its shape, its function, the sound when it scratches across the page. Each part of the memory of what a "pen" is comes from a different region of the brain. The entire image of "pen" is actively reconstructed by the brain from many different areas. Neurologists are only beginning to understand

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