Physiology 4710A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Frontal Lobe, Long-Term Memory, Explicit Memory
9 Jan 2019
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This is because everything we sense is more a product of our memories than what is perceived by your senses. When you hear someone talk to you, what you hear is the product of years of learning, forming memories of the sounds of phonemes, words, their meanings etc. The word memory has two meanings: 1. Information that is stored (e. g. the memory of grandmother: 2. Structure that stores this information (e. g. the strength of synapses in a particular part of the brain). Learning refers to the storage process, the creation of memories (e. g. what mediates a change in synaptic strength): how you create the changes in the synapses strength. While remembering refers to the retrieval of stored information. There are various types of memory and memory plays an important sensory function: for example, a loss of one type can result in our not being able to recognize ourselves in the mirror.
