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Your brain processes your experiences
and all the information gathered by your
senses. Most of this data is discarded, but
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the important perceptions, facts, and skills
are stored in your memory. This enables
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you to think, learn, and be creative. Any information
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for a few seconds
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from your senses at most.
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three sections—sensory,
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short term, and long term.
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Memories are formed by electrical
Vivid memories
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signals making connections between
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stimulus, it fires an
network. The more often the network
electrical signal onto a
changes in your brain boost nerve activity.
neighboring nerve cell.
is activated, the stronger it gets,
They strengthen the memory-forming process,
creating a long-term memory.
creating vivid long-term memories. This is
why you often have unusually
clear recall of events that
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Links form
The signals continue to fire until
The more the linked cells Memory web
are stimulated, the stronger a web of nerve cells is formed.
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