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CM 188: Lisa Genova on the Science Behind Memory

Curious Minds at Work

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What's the Difference Between Working Memory and Short Term Memory?

Working memory is the information that's flooding into my brain through the portals of my senses and my emotions right now. It's replaced in the next moment by whatever happens next because life keeps happening. Your working memory is that temporary scratch pad it's the temporary auditory loop if I give you a 10 digit passcode for my Wi-Fi in my house you're gonna hear that in your head. If we do something to keep it so that it doesn't disappear from your present moment if we dosomething to keep it then its funneled through the hippocampus to be stored as a long-term memory when we remember.

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