Memory in sentence

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I mean, another way to think about this is, which would you rather have, a kid with obesity, diabetes, shortened lifespan, all the things that go with it, or a kid with one little extra bit of false memory?

Such a discovery has made me more tolerant of the everyday memory mistakes that my friends and family members make.

Such a discovery might have saved Steve Titus, the man whose whole future was snatched away by a false memory.

But meanwhile, we should all keep in mind, we'd do well to, that memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

Now we could approach this from a working memory perspective or from a multitasking perspective.

We're going to do working memory today.

Now, working memory is that part of our consciousness that we are aware of at any given time of day.

Now working memory has four basic components.

It allows us to reach back into our long-term memory and pull some of that in as we need it, mixes it, processes it in light of whatever our current goal is.

Now working memory capacity is our ability to leverage that, our ability to take what we know and what we can hang onto and leverage it in ways that allow us to satisfy our current goal.

Now working memory capacity has a fairly long history, and it's associated with a lot of positive effects.

People with high working memory capacity tend to be good storytellers.

So I'm going to ask you to perform a couple tasks, and we're going to take your working memory out for a ride.

Now the problem that we have is that life comes at us, and it comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is to take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it with a working memory that's about the size of a pea.

Now don't get me wrong, working memory is awesome.

Working memory allows us to investigate our current experience as we move forward.

Now working memory is great for allowing us to communicate.

All of that occurs within working memory.

Now, a central issue with working memory is that it's limited.

When we think about working memory, we have to realize that this limited capacity has lots of different impacts on us.

All of that talks about working memory, what we can do and what we can't do.

We need to realize that working memory has a limited capacity, and that working memory capacity itself is how we negotiate that.

Now, the final piece of this, the take-home message from a working memory capacity standpoint is this: what we process, we learn.

And if you reach back into the dark corners of your memory, you might remember something like what I felt when my grandfather died and when I realized it could happen to me too, that sense that behind all of this the void is waiting.

(Applause ends) It was the only time that my father ever saw me perform live, and I dedicate this talk to his memory.

For example, the smell of a campfire could evoke the memory of being trapped in a burning house.

For someone with PTSD, that memory activates the same neurochemical cascade as the original event.

And on top of that, we can then layer our ever-growing knowledge of brain structure and memory to create a thousandfold increase that we need.

But then, in the 1990s, studies starting showing, following the lead of Elizabeth Gould at Princeton and others, studies started showing the evidence of neurogenesis, the birth of new brain cells in the adult mammalian brain, first in the olfactory bulb, which is responsible for our sense of smell, then in the hippocampus involving short-term memory, and finally in the amygdala itself.

However, mice reared in what we called an enriched environment, a large habitation with other mice with wheels and ladders and areas to explore, demonstrate neurogenesis, the birth of new brain cells, and as we showed, they also perform better on a range of learning and memory tasks.

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