How is data stored in the brain, and why is it difficult to forget traumatic memories?
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Memory is poorly understood, but one key element is the encoding of relationships, to remember “ate lunch at McDonald’s”, a relationship between your ideas for “you”, “mid-day meal”, “McDonald’s”, and “happened on tuesday”. If this relationship is reinforced consistently, it becomes a habit, a better remembered idea. If it’s just the noise of daily life, this reinforcement doesn’t happen and it’s soon forgotten.
Tramatic memories are important, frequently revisited, and lovel things that don’t happen often. This tends to make them memorablee but also hurts their reliability because you start to remember your recollections rather than the actual event.
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