How does the brain store information? Detailed answer

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How does the brain store information?

Information storage is memory, and memorization is closely related to learning. Psychologists have long tried to explain how people remember and why they forget many things they have learned. But no one has yet found the answers to these questions. According to one theory, when a person learns something, some physical changes occur. A certain trace remains in the brain. Accordingly, memories, or traces, can leave the brain, simply fade away over time. Your attitude to a particular event also affects whether you will remember it or not.

In general, people tend to forget things that are unpleasant or distressing, and remember things that are pleasant. The brain can learn different kinds of tasks. A highly organized brain can memorize more complex tasks. In the simplest brain, learning is very primitive. People show the greatest mental abilities. But how and where does the brain store the information we call memory? As we have already said, scientists cannot yet fully explain this.

The human brain is very complex in its structure. The human cortex is the twisted, wrinkled, tangled surface of much of the brain. When these areas were excited with a weak electric current, acquired knowledge was released in a person. These stimuli forced the brain to reproduce the knowledge that was embedded in it in the past. It is known that damage to certain areas of the brain leads to memory loss. But whether they are places in the brain where information is stored, we do not know. We also don't know how the information is stored.

Some scientists think that information storage is a chemical process: individual nerve cells carry chemically encoded information. Other scientists believe that memory is the result of some constantly occurring changes in the structure of the nerve. So memory is still a mystery!

Author: Likum A.

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