Aging Is Killing Your Brain!
The mysteries behind the mega computer in your head is a never-ending list. The 3,5 pound of flesh in your scull determines every little action you make.
The history goes all the way back to the Ancient Greeks in the fifth century. However, the mystery still remains unsolved.
When it comes to learning, the human brain interacts and creates a network of neurons. Neurons is an electrically cell that can receive, process and transmit information through chemical signals. These networks are the reason to how we learn.
New information and exited neurons leads to our brain making associations between the new information and past experience. It is these associations that determines what we will remember and what we chose to forget.
How does the brain memorize new information?
Sensations enter the brain through sensory memory. Here the information is
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Different memory areas have been identified for as an example touch and feel, sounds and motion. When we attempt to regain a memory the brain searches for that specific memory in different regions of the brain, and if the search is successful the brain will deliver you the memory. All of this occurs within seconds.
Much brain research has shown us that emotions has a strong impact on the brain and our ability to learn.
The brain reads signals that the body transmit and the emotions that are created will influence the rational choices we make. Studies such as “Emotional Brain (1994)” has shown us that people whose sense of emotion is destroyed make unappropriated ethical decisions, and people who cannot recognize fear are unable to make rational decisions
Emotions also has an impact on the brains ability to learn. Fear can block the brains ability to function at a higher level or it can have a reverse effect, and the memory will be imprinted forever as a result of strong