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Memory and learning

Brain Science: Neuroscience, Behavior

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Is Stress a Moderator of Memory?

Stress is definitely a moderating factor in the memory process. At that young age, all you have is awareness. So it's a little easier maybe to bank them. Maybe it's specific ones and they get retained unintentionally. It's something else that sort of happens because there's just less traffic. Yeah. There are less neural connections earlier in life. Your brain is really building these sort of highways in your brain for data to be linked to other data. As we get older, this is why it's harder to change, so to speak,. Because those neural networks, otherwise known as cow paths, are really more ingrained. They're just like this is always the way that we go

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