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Alcino Silva, “Learning and Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Education

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What Is Memory Like?

For the first time in human history, we have a sketch of what happens in the brain when we learn and remember something. Andi my mind, this is probably one of the greatest achievements of modern science. We don't know all of them, that's for sure. There's much to be discovered, but we at least know one general class of them. I think you should do things in a sensible way. Nno, i think your question is, is, is quite important, because it reveals one aspect of memory that's really new,. Our ability to localize memory to the very cells, o the very synopses, actually, to the very contacts between cells that change

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