How exactly does the brain store information?
In: Biology
My understanding is that you have cells(neurons) that process sensory information. When you see a red ball you have a neuron that knows red, you have another that knows sphere. There are others that process shiny, soft, rubber, smell, sound when it bounces, etc. When you see a red ball a path is created between all the sensory information creating the full experience of the ball. The memory, or the storing of the experience is another cell that remembers the path those neurons formed during that experience. So when you remember something you aren’t technically remembering the actual event you are piecing together the experience over again.
At least that was the latest theory I’ve read.
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