How can the brain store a memory?
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Here is a link to a website that explains the process quite very well.
http://www.brainchannels.com/Memory/enco…
You can guess of the process of storing memories in your mind to be similar to that of a computer that utilizes RAM (Random Access Memory) for the temporary storage of information before person placed in long-term storage on the hard drive.
This temporary storage, or working memory, depends on a different introduce yourself of brain structures than long term memories do.
The short answer is that we don't know how memories are stored at the present time. It appears that it relies on changes in the strength of communication connections between nerve cell (at what is known as the "synapse"). When one neuron stimulates another neuron enough times at the right frequency of stimulation, it can make the responding neuron signal more readily. This enthusiasm to signal is then maintained so that the next time this same neuron is stimulated it can evolve more easily. It is believed that this is the molecular basis of memory but the real true details remain to be sorted out.
Through synapses in the temporal cortex of the brain (mainly in the hippocampus). There are the main types of memory episodic and semantic.
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