Like what is the unit or language? What is the mechanism of reading, writing or recalling a piece of information.
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The leading theory as of what I’ve gathered is something called Theta waves that generate Theta rhythms.
The brain can be measured by its activity levels with its frequencies it produces.
The list of them from highest frequency to lowest is Gamma, Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta.
Gamma is your max concentration and activity level of your brain.
Beta is your average concentration and activity levels.
Alpha is your relaxed and passive attention.
Theta is deeply relaxed and inner focused.
Delta is sleep.
These waves can create rhythms like a beat of a song that’s a response from external stimulus (outside the brain). These beats are what we are currently experimenting with on humans to study how they affect our brains ability to recognize familiar senses and memories.
A study done on rats found that if you mess with the prefrontal cortex (the part of the brain behind your forehead) you can make the brains filter so to speak unable to identify past patterns and experiences.
This handshake of information between the prefrontal cortex and the rest of the brain is a major element of memory. The cortex doesn’t tell the brain what the right memories are it stops the wrong memories from intruding. It’s a major stepping stone in the researching more about schizophrenia, where a patient can recall memories correctly but cannot stop false memories or ideas from coming in. It’s where some of the people with this disease can hear voices or see things that aren’t even real.
There is still a lot to be learned and I’m sure that others can add more or correct me where I messed up. Here is an article talking about that rat study if you wanna read up on it.
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2016/human-brain-store-retrieve-memories/
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