{"id":20770,"date":"2016-01-20T18:50:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yaabot.com\/?p=20770"},"modified":"2016-01-20T18:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:50:53","slug":"how-does-the-brain-store-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/how-does-the-brain-store-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does The Brain Store A Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ever wondered how you can\u00a0hear your name in a crowd, amidst all the chaos? Because it\u2019s YOUR name. Your brain has been trained for several years to recognise it as your identity. Hearing it\u00a0means someone is in need of your attention. Imagine being interrogated, or interviewed. If you are in a position of taking a decision, you are likely to come up with quick sets of reasons that would insert the word \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d into your mind. What you are doing is justifying yourself, and in a way feeding your brain an idea.<\/p>\n
Big Think conducted an interview with Daniel Dennett from Tuft University who shared his ideas on \u201cBeliefs\u201d. Dennet\u00a0conceived a thought experiment, wherein a person encounters a brain surgery. Before the operation, he had the information that he was the only child of his parents. But the surgeon somehow managed to incorporate an idea in that person\u2019s brain that he has an\u00a0older\u00a0brother. His memory was magically edited with a new information resembling a piece of code. How doable is this?<\/p>\n
Such a feat isn’t possible today, but sticking to the thought experiment, the patient would be convinced of his younger system by the end of the operation. Let’s delve deeper.<\/p>\n
Now, what if we ask him his brother’s\u00a0name? He would practically face the most difficult question of his life. For some moments, he would know that he does not know the name. Next? The belief is gone, is doubted and in a stage of fallacy where the information exists but no further tracking can be done.<\/p>\n
Neurophilosophical pragmatism, or Neuropragmatism, is the scientifically informed treatment of cognition, knowledge, the body-mind relation agency, socialisation and further issues predicted on judgments about basic matters. Neuropragmatism is capable of grappling with philosophical questions, arising at many levels from synapse to society. Dennett ultimately rejects\u00a0the idea that information can be fed to the memory network in such a manner. The \u201cpragmatism\u201d pictured with initial logic, finally proved to be false and contradicted reality.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n This human brain is persistent at being fascinating, and with time it has developed brilliant concepts that have revolutionized the world we inhabit. Through science, arts, mathematics and engineering, our mind has transformed the planet, and our lives.\u00a0 To understand the memory structure of the brain system, an analogy with a computer’s hard drive\u00a0can be drawn. It can be said that \u201cmemory\u201d is divided into different folders and data is abstracted from a particular folder as required. However, recent studies emphasize the fact that real brain network is too complicated to comprehend using such analogies.<\/p>\n Multiple studies have shown that\u00a0memory does not depend on a single segment of our brain. Instead,\u00a0it relies heavily\u00a0on the brain system as a whole. For example, swimming is an act that synchronizes different parts of brain with other organs of our body. Both halves of the cerebrum act together to incorporate the\u00a0memory of ‘how to swim’. It also controls the movement of body. The Medulla oblongata helps in regulating the\u00a0breathing process. In fact every element of memory (sights, sounds, words, emotions) are encrypted in the same section of the brain which created that fragment (visual cortex, motor cortex, language area, etc ) initially. Recalling the memory reactivates the pattern formed in the initial recording process. Thus memory can be mapped in a complex web structure where threads symbolize various elements of a memory that join at nodes, to form a whole rounded memory of a person, object or event. Nature formed this structure to ensure the safety of other sectors, even if one sector is damaged.<\/p>\n