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But this was not the only
memory
distinction Milner found.
But surprisingly, he improved over repeated trials, even though he had no
memory
of previous attempts.
What Milner had discovered was that the declarative
memory
of names, dates and facts is different from the procedural
memory
of riding a bicycle or signing your name.
And we now know that procedural
memory
relies more on the basal ganglia and cerebellum, structures that were intact in H.M.'s brain.
This distinction between "knowing that" and "knowing how" has underpinned all
memory
research since.
Though H.M. spent most of his life forgetting things, he and his contributions to our understanding of
memory
will be remembered for generations to come.
By finding the answers to these questions and others, we may one day be able to heal ourselves so well that scars will be just a
memory.
We lay down this context-dependent
memory
and learn to repeat the process next time.
Now, remember that bit about context-dependent
memory?
All this became a childhood
memory.
Think back to a really vivid
memory.
That second
memory
probably isn't as strong, but why not?
Information first lands in short term memory, where it's available from anywhere from a few seconds to a couple of minutes.
It's then transferred to long-term
memory
through areas such as the hippocampus, and finally to several storage regions across the brain.
Scientists have several theories about what's behind this deterioration, from actual brain shrinkage, the hippocampus loses 5% of its neurons every decade for a total loss of 20% by the time you're 80 years old to the drop in the production of neurotransmitters, like acetylcholine, which is vital to learning and
memory.
Mental and physical health problems, which tend to increase as we age, interfere with our ability to pay attention, and thus act as
memory
thieves.
Another leading cause of
memory
problems is chronic stress.
People who are depressed are 40% more likely to develop
memory
problems.
Isolation, which is tied to depression, is another
memory
thief.
A study by the Harvard School of Public Health found that older people with high levels of social integration had a slower rate of
memory
decline over a six-year period.
Both of these activities decrease your stress and increase the size of the hippocampus, thereby improving your
memory.
Researchers theorize that certain
memory
processes can happen only when we are asleep, and our dreams are a signal that these processes are taking place.
So when external input falls below a certain level, like when you're asleep, your brain automatically triggers the generation of data from its
memory
storages, which appear to you in the form of the thoughts and feelings you experience in your dreams.
Memory
based on short glimpses can be unreliable, and we often overestimate our own accuracy.
And for the computers that often act as extensions of ourselves,
memory
plays much the same role, whether it's a two-hour movie, a two-word text file, or the instructions for opening either, everything in a computer's
memory
takes the form of basic units called bits, or binary digits.
Each of these is stored in a
memory
cell that can switch between two states for two possible values, 0 and 1. Files and programs consist of millions of these bits, all processed in the central processing unit, or CPU, that acts as the computer's brain.
Like us, computers have short-term
memory
for immediate tasks, and long-term
memory
for more permanent storage.
When you run a program, your operating system allocates area within the short-term
memory
for performing those instructions.
The time this takes is known as the
memory'
s latency.
And because program instructions must be processed quickly and continuously, all locations within the short-term
memory
can be accessed in any order, hence the name random access
memory.
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