Have you ever heard the phrase memories are timeless? Well they are, once they go through the process of making the memories in the brain. The brain and it’s process of making memories is extremely complex. The cerebral cortex and the medial temporal lobe play a key role in the process of making memories.In the process of making memories there are three parts: short term memories, long memories, and recalling memories
Do you ever wonder why we have memories and how the brain is able to make them? Well to answer the first question it’s easy, we have memories because without it we wouldn’t be able to do simple everyday things. Such as driving a car, locking the door before you leave to work, or simply speak. In fact, without the brain's …show more content…
Most people call this is called short-term memory. Actually short-term memory only last from fifteen to thirty seconds. To relate it to something it’s like writing your name in the air with sparkler. Our short-term memory is often compared to RAM on a computer. RAM is short for random access memory. This makes sense to relate the RAM on a computer to our short-term memory because we only use the information we are currently working with (Burnett, 2016) (Mastin, 2010). To understand how long we hold on to that information, think about it this way. Some examples of short-term memories includes: “Carry over” a number in a subtraction equation or remembering an argument until the other person stops talking. Your short term memory can hold up to 7 items. Once there is a slight distraction you will forget a short term memory forever. The only way a person can remember a short term memory, is if they try to remember it consciously. When we remember a short term memory,it becomes a long-term memory. Forgetting a short-term different from long-term memory; when you forget a short-term memory your nerves impulse or neurons simply stop transmitting that memory. This is how short-term memory works in the human brain …show more content…
This is because the human brain is a hard drive of information.unlike short-term memories, long-term memories have a physical presence in the brain. All those memories are spread out in the brain, because of this long-term memories can be split into two sections Implicit and Explicit memories. Implicit memories are habits and skills we do automatically. Such as speaking, checking the time, and typing an essay for school. Explicit memories can be split in two subgroups episodic and semantic. Episodic memories are memories are memories that happen to you. For example an Episodic memory can be being sick on Christmas. Semantic memories are more general information. Such as knowing that Christmas is a celebration of Jesus’s birthday (Burnett,2016). Unlike short-term memory that uses a visual code for a brief time, long-term memory encodes the information you are experiencing based on how important your hippocampus thinks it is. Now not all long-term memories are equally strong. The stronger memories are easier to recall. Weaker memories have to be prompted or reminded a little to be able to access that memory. The human brain will revise or change memories overtime. The human brain does this by forging or talking bits of a similar memory and putting them into another memory. Another way the brain does this is by listening to someone else that had the same/similar experience with you. Your brain will take
Do you ever wonder why we have memories and how the brain is able to make them? Well to answer the first question it’s easy, we have memories because without it we wouldn’t be able to do simple everyday things. Such as driving a car, locking the door before you leave to work, or simply speak. In fact, without the brain's …show more content…
Most people call this is called short-term memory. Actually short-term memory only last from fifteen to thirty seconds. To relate it to something it’s like writing your name in the air with sparkler. Our short-term memory is often compared to RAM on a computer. RAM is short for random access memory. This makes sense to relate the RAM on a computer to our short-term memory because we only use the information we are currently working with (Burnett, 2016) (Mastin, 2010). To understand how long we hold on to that information, think about it this way. Some examples of short-term memories includes: “Carry over” a number in a subtraction equation or remembering an argument until the other person stops talking. Your short term memory can hold up to 7 items. Once there is a slight distraction you will forget a short term memory forever. The only way a person can remember a short term memory, is if they try to remember it consciously. When we remember a short term memory,it becomes a long-term memory. Forgetting a short-term different from long-term memory; when you forget a short-term memory your nerves impulse or neurons simply stop transmitting that memory. This is how short-term memory works in the human brain …show more content…
This is because the human brain is a hard drive of information.unlike short-term memories, long-term memories have a physical presence in the brain. All those memories are spread out in the brain, because of this long-term memories can be split into two sections Implicit and Explicit memories. Implicit memories are habits and skills we do automatically. Such as speaking, checking the time, and typing an essay for school. Explicit memories can be split in two subgroups episodic and semantic. Episodic memories are memories are memories that happen to you. For example an Episodic memory can be being sick on Christmas. Semantic memories are more general information. Such as knowing that Christmas is a celebration of Jesus’s birthday (Burnett,2016). Unlike short-term memory that uses a visual code for a brief time, long-term memory encodes the information you are experiencing based on how important your hippocampus thinks it is. Now not all long-term memories are equally strong. The stronger memories are easier to recall. Weaker memories have to be prompted or reminded a little to be able to access that memory. The human brain will revise or change memories overtime. The human brain does this by forging or talking bits of a similar memory and putting them into another memory. Another way the brain does this is by listening to someone else that had the same/similar experience with you. Your brain will take