Memory In The Movie Inside Out

Though Merriam-Webster’s dictionary has several different definitions for memory, overall it is “the storage of things learned and retained from an organism's activity or experience as evidenced by modification of structure or behavior or by recall and recognition” and “the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms.” The movie Inside Out depicts five major emotions including joy, sadness, fear, disgust, and anger- that are the main characters in the film. The film portrays an 11-year-old girl, named Riley, who is originally from Minnesota, moves to San Francisco with her parents. The animation starts with a memory from birth where Riley’s parents said, “aren’t

The amygdala is known for its ability to regulate emotion and influence on stress hormones for memory (lumen). For example if someone has arachnophobia and sees a big spider the stress hormones caused by the appearance of spiders causes you to remember that exact moment. Whenever there is a moment where a person is stressed, it tends to be retained within long and short-term memories because of its severity on the brain. The hippocampus is involved in memory because it is used to recall information and also transfers new information into long-term memory (lumen). Not only does the hippocampus recalls information; but, also gives memories meaning and connect them to other means through the cortical regions of the brain (lumen). The cerebellum controls things like procedural memory, motor learning, and classical conditioning. Things that are day to day movements such as blinking your eye is controlled by your cerebellum; you perform the movement without realizing it, because you are used to it (lumen). The brain is a very complex organ that is being utilized all-day and even while you are asleep and processing important