What is memory?

Memory forms a key component of your intelligence. Everything you learn in your lifetime is organized and stored in some way. The efficiency with which you access this information is what defines whether you have a good or bad memory. Scientists have spent much time seeking the location in the brain where memories are stored, identifying the hippocampus and rhinal cortex as possible sites. However, contrary to what many of us might think, the latest research suggests that memory cannot be pinned down to any single part of the brain. In fact, it’s false to think of memory as a storage facility crammed with everything you have ever learned, and a place you delve inside when you want to retrieve a piece of information. Memory isn’t a place, it’s an activity, an experience: when you remember something you are actually reconstructing it from details you consider important. Your memory is selective and interpretive, and the mechanisms driving it are spread throughout the brain. Two people who witness the same event can give entirely different accounts. In short, you remember more clearly what an event means to you than the actual details.

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