How do we memorize things?

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How do we memorize things?

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The information is stored within the links between neurons. Each link has a weight that can be adjusted upon exposure to a new subject. The process of memorizing is nothing but adjusting the weight of links.
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some sausage has more meat

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Impenitent wrote: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:51 pm some sausage has more meat

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Oh yes, and we memorize things by repeating them.
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There is an art to memorizing one can memorize by repetition/rote, this is a hard-won battle to an end. It is much easier to create a storyline linking the items to be remembered through associations, making the items sometimes exaggerated or fantastic to standout in memory. There may be other means I am not familiar with, but memorizing through the use of associations is most useful.
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The cup is always full! :shock:
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Microtubules.
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bahman wrote: Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:23 pm The information is stored within the links between neurons. Each link has a weight that can be adjusted upon exposure to a new subject. The process of memorizing is nothing but adjusting the weight of links.
That's a scientific question.
There are thousands of academic papers (4413 is the number we get from a popular online data base) explaining how different types of memory are stored in a biological brain.
https://neurosciencenews.com/?s=how+the+brain+memory
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