Memories in the Human Brain When we recall memories, the brain “replays” a pattern of neural activity. These replays are not exactly the same to the original memories. Otherwise we would not know the difference between genuine experience and the memory. The human brain is divided into different parts that store and retrieve memories. How do we recall and store memories inside the brain? To store memories, information flows from the outside world through our five senses. Memories are not stored in specific parts of the brain but all over the brain circuits. Each new memory creates one or more neural pathways which when strengthened through repetition become long lasting memories. Neuroscientists (scientists that examine the human brain) have said that the importance of sleep helps to combine the memories and in improving brain function. When people are in a deep sleep, the brain recalls all the individuals you did that day. Scientists use …show more content…
For example the hippocampus is for navigation and memory. But there isn’t a single part of the brain that is the ‘master control’ of everything. There are three main stages in the formation and retrieval of memory. Those three are Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval. There are memories that are distributed into two different parts according to the information type. Topographic memory is the ability to recognize familiar places. Flashbulb memories are memories of a unique or highly emotional event. Our brain allows us to think, learn, remember the bad, good, emotional, and happy times in our life, it also helps us be creative. That would be impossible if we di not possess a memory. The more emotionally charged an event or experience is, the better it is remembered. Scientists have been trying to find more information about our brains. As generations pass on, scientists will have more knowledge about the human