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Memory
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| Ah, memories...the places and faces of the past that make us say, "those were the days". But wait, that's not what memory is all about. There are other types of memory, like remembering your e-mail address, a song, and even walking. Now, knowing how to walk seems kind of common sense and automatic right? It doesn't even appear like we actually need to remember that. Yet, this process had to be learned, which brings up another aspect of memory - it is crucial to learning. So what exactly is memory? How do we remember? And what the heck does it have to do with learning? Hmm . . . so many questions I will have to remember to answer. |
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"Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers, in groups uniquely adapted to sample the energetic states of the world around us: heat, light, force, and chemical composition. That is all we ever know of it directly; all else is logical inference.
" -- Vernon B. Mountcastle (from Johns Hopkins Medical Journal, vol. 136, page 131, 1975)
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