BIO SCI 38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Episodic Memory, Neuroanatomy
11 Jan 2020
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Fundamentally, you as a person are derived from experiences that have been stored in your nervous system. This is possible only because your brain has developed the capacity to store information. Learning and memory explain the fact that our past experience influences our. Learning and memory processes cannot be observed directly; their existence is inferred. They are theoretical concepts that are proposed to explain the fact that our. Operational definitions of learning and memory behavior is influenced by our past experiences. Learning is the process of acquiring [representations of] new information, while memory refers to the persistence of [that information] in a state that can be revealed at a later time (modified from squire, 1987). Learning is a set of processes initiated by experience. Memory is the product of that process. Memory is the product of complex and dynamic interactions within and between cells throughout the brain.
