Is it a series of chemicals one creates overtime and stores in the brain? What exactly is being stored in your brain once you make a memory?
In: Biology
In a previous ELI5, I explained that memory isn’t a filing cabinet, it’s a web.
This web is made of neurons, which communicate electrochemically. Place two of your fingers, facing each other, almost touching but not. These are the neurons in our example. Picture electricity running up the left finger to the nail. When it gets to the nail, it releases chemicals (neurotransmitters) which are received by the right finger, triggering it to pass along the electrical signal and so on
Physically, neurons can be something like 4 to 100 micrometers long (a micron is the same as a micrometer, no idea why there’s two terms for it)
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