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This document discusses different types of memory in the brain. It explains that short-term memory stores information needed within seconds to hours, while long-term memory stores important information like names and skills. Long-term memory is divided into explicit, implicit, and semantic memories. Explicit memories are facts learned consciously, implicit memories are skills used automatically, and semantic memories are deeply ingrained facts. The document also discusses how sleep is vital for consolidating memories as the brain moves learned information to different locations. Learning involves encoding, consolidation and integration, and recall, with sleep critical for the consolidation stage.

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Memory

This document discusses different types of memory in the brain. It explains that short-term memory stores information needed within seconds to hours, while long-term memory stores important information like names and skills. Long-term memory is divided into explicit, implicit, and semantic memories. Explicit memories are facts learned consciously, implicit memories are skills used automatically, and semantic memories are deeply ingrained facts. The document also discusses how sleep is vital for consolidating memories as the brain moves learned information to different locations. Learning involves encoding, consolidation and integration, and recall, with sleep critical for the consolidation stage.

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Memory

EVO Session 2013 Braining-Up Your English Lessons Week 3

February, 2013

Maja Dakic-Brkovic about me

We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember

neuroscientist Eric Kandel

Memory in Brain

No single brain center stores memory Each part of the brain most likely contributes differently to permanent memory storage

Short-term memory

Stores information that you need to remember in the following seconds, minutes or hours. An example would be a telephone message that you are given and must remember until you pass it on.

Repeat to remember: Short-term memory

Most of the events that predict whether something learned also will be remembered occur in the first few seconds of learning. You can improve your chances of remembering something if you reproduce the environment in which you first put it into your brain.

Long-term memory

Stores information that your brain retains because it is important to you. Basic information remembered includes names of family and friends, your address, as well as information on how to do certain activities and tasks. Long-term memory can be further divided into explicit, implicit and semantic memory.

Long-term memory

Explicit memories are facts that you made a conscious effort to learn and that you can remember at will, for example, the names of state capitals. Implicit memory is information you draw on automatically in order to perform actions such as driving a car or riding a bicycle. Semantic memories are facts that are so deeply ingrained they require no effort to recall. An example would be the months of the year.

Long-term memory

Interesting! There are large age-related differences with explicit memory, but age has little or no effect on implicit or semantic memory.
Source: Harvard Medical School

Remember to repeat: Long-term memory

Our brains give us only an approximate view of reality, because they mix new knowledge with past memories and store them together as one. The way to make long-term memory more reliable is to incorporate new information gradually and repeat it in timed intervals.

Sleep

Sleep is vital for the consolidation and integration of memories during the formation process. Sleep is biological creativity. The difference in how the brain handles learned information before and after sleep is the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

Learning involves 3 steps for memory formation

1. encoding 2. consolidation and integration 3. recall

Sleep is vital for the 2nd stage

The last 2 hours of our sleep is most critical for consolidation and yet our sleep is often cut short. Sleep physically changes the geography of memories. After sleep the location in the brain of our learning has actually moved.

Interesting links about memory


Memory Wiki Memory Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Memory Medline Plus Understanding Memory (Youtube video 3.48 min.) Memory and Learning Canadian Institutes of Health Research Memory Boosters Psychology Today Memory Improvement Techniques Mind Tools

Source: How many things of our memory are true?

Thank you for your attention! Hope you will remember some interesting facts!

Memory
EVO Session 2013 Braining-Up Your English Lessons Week 3

February, 2013

Maja Dakic-Brkovic about me

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