Transcript Your Brain - Getting Sorted

Your Brain
Long-Term Memory,
How to Enhance Your Memory,
and
How the Connections Grow
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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
Procedural
ClassicallyConditioned
Implicit
Memory
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The Drawers Have Specific Names

Explicit or Declarative
◦ Semantic
◦ Episodic

Implicit or Non-declarative
◦ Procedural
◦ Classically-Conditioned
◦ Priming
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So Let’s Look at Your Drawers

Explicit or Declarative
(Conscious Recall)
◦ Semantic (Facts and
General Info)
◦ Episodic (Personal
Experiences and Events)

Implicit or Nondeclarative (No
Conscious Recall)
◦ Procedural (Motor Skills
and Habits)
◦ Classically-Conditioned
(Response to Conditioned
Stimuli)
◦ Priming (Earlier Exposure)
Semantic Episodic
Explicit
Memory
Procedural
Priming
ClassicallyConditioned
Implicit
Memory
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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.
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And what if the data isn’t in the correct
drawer when your brain searches
for the missing piece?
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Want to enhance your memory?
Try the process of SQ4R
1. Survey
2. Question
3. Read
4. Recite
5. Review
6. Write
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To Remember Better,
Use the Process of SQ4R
It works for anything you want to remember
Survey
Question
Read
Recite
Review
Write
Try it today.
What is something you want to remember better, longer, more solidly?
For school?
For work?
For fun?
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What memory do you want to build?
For a stronger, more solid, enhanced memory,
SQ4R
Survey
Question
Read
Recite
Review
Write
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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 3
branches”
“I have 4 branches.
I am learning more.”
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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
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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
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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)
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