From Our Neurons to Yours
How we remember, why we forget | Anthony Wagner
May 16, 2024
Neuroscientist Anthony Wagner discusses memory formation, brain activation patterns, and multitasking's impact on memory recall. He explores how the hippocampus integrates sensory inputs and the importance of strategic practice for optimizing memory retention.
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- Stress impairs planning abilities by affecting memory usage, as shown in a Stanford study.
- Strategic attentional control improves memory encoding and retrieval, enhancing cognitive performance.
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Understanding Memory Formation and Function
Memory is a complex process involving various types of memories, including episodic memories that encompass multi-dimensional aspects of events. The hippocampus plays a crucial role in building and storing memory traces, facilitating memory retrieval. Different brain regions represent distinct features of experiences, such as sounds or visuals, which converge in the hippocampus to form coherent memories. The interaction between cortical and sub-cortical regions influences memory formation, exhibiting neural time travel where patterns of activation are reinstated during memory recall.
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