This afternoon, after posting my last entry, I sat down with yesterday's Star Tribune and found the following passage, which, I think, does a better job than myself in explaining the way we story information.
"The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer's hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man's curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this restorage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is sepaarated from the context in which it was originally learned."
Wang, Sam. "Whose Words These Are I Think I Know..." Star Tribune, Op-Ed. Sunday, June 29, 2008.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment