Unlike books on a bookshelf, our memories are reconstructions of scattered elements throughout our brain. Several different areas of the brain have to work together to remember past events, this is sometimes known as distributed processing. Elements of memory like sounds, words, and sights, are encoded in the part of the brain that created that memory fragment. This efficiently reactivates the neural patterns generated during the original encoding. This works a lot like a web. The threads symbolize the different elements of memory, that join at nodes, which are intersection points, to form a whole memory of a person, place, thing, or event. Since memory is distributed
