How exactly does the brain store information?
In: Biology
The short answer: it’s complicated
The slightly longer answer: it’s somewhere in the network of connections between neurons. As you learn and experience new things, dendrites grow and form new synapses. The longer you spend studying, the stronger the connections are and the longer it takes to forget/disconnect. However it’s complicated and truthfully we still don’t understand how it works.
Source: am neuroscientist who used to study memory, cognition, and learning. (I started in a new lab less than a year ago so it’s still pretty fresh.)
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