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Your Brain Long-Term Memory, How to Enhance Your Memory, and How the Connections Grow. 1. Long-Term Memory is an Abstract Concept (So Let’s Use An Analogy). Long-Term Memory is part of your brain’s filing system. It has at least 2 filing cabinets.
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Your BrainLong-Term Memory,How to Enhance Your Memory,andHow the Connections Grow GayleFisherYourBrainFacts 1
Long-Term Memory is an Abstract Concept(So Let’s Use An Analogy) Long-Term Memory is part of your brain’s filing system. It has at least 2 filing cabinets. Each filing cabinet has different drawers with different kinds of memories. Semantic Episodic Explicit Memory Priming Classically-Conditioned Procedural Implicit Memory GayleFisherYourBrainFacts
The Drawers Have Specific Names Explicit or Declarative Semantic Episodic Implicit or Non-declarative Procedural Classically-Conditioned Priming GayleFisherYourBrainFacts
So Let’s Look at Your Drawers Explicit or Declarative (Conscious Recall) Semantic (Facts and General Info) Episodic (Personal Experiences and Events) Implicit or Non-declarative (No Conscious Recall) Procedural (Motor Skills and Habits) Classically-Conditioned (Response to Conditioned Stimuli) Priming (Earlier Exposure) Semantic Episodic Explicit Memory Procedural Priming Classically-Conditioned Implicit Memory GayleFisherYourBrainFacts
The Concept of Long-Term Memory Your brain stores different parts of your Long-Term Memory in different physical sections. When your brain needs a memory, it activates that physical section & extracts the memory. Like a computer gets data from its memory storage. GayleFisherYourBrainFacts 5
And what if the data isn’t in the correct drawer when your brain searches for the missing piece? GayleFisherYourBrainFacts
Want to enhance your memory? Try the process of SQ4R • Survey • Question • Read • Recite • Review • Write GayleFisherYourBrainFacts
To Remember Better, Use the Process of SQ4R It works for anything you want to remember Try it today. What is something you want to remember better, longer, more solidly? For school? For work? For fun? GayleFisherYourBrainFacts
What memory do you want to build? SQ4R Survey Question Read Recite Review Write For a stronger, more solid, enhanced memory, GayleFisherYourBrainFacts
Learning modifies the brain’s neural networks in 2 ways 1. Dendrites grow more spines, more synapses, more receptor sites, more sensitivity What does growing more spines (branches) mean? “I have 4 branches. I am learning more.” “I have 3 branches” GayleFisherYourBrainFacts 10
Learning modifies the brain’s neural networks in 2 ways 1. Dendrites grow more synapses, more receptor sites, more sensitivity What does that mean? (go see Wikipedia) Link to another photo Synapses and Receptor Sites GayleFisherYourBrainFacts 11
Learning modifies the brain’s neural networks in 2 ways 1. Dendrites grow more spines, more synapses, more receptor sites, more sensitivity Link to photo * Link to photo * * From university library of educational use permissions GayleFisherYourBrainFacts 12
The Second Way 2. Neurons increase their ability to release neurotransmitters Neurotransmitters are the chemicals that jump the gap between neurons. Want to know more? (go to Wikipedia) GayleFisherYourBrainFacts 13