Where is your memory stored?

[pakigang]

What i mean to say is all the information that we take daily, we learn, we remember, where is it store in our brain and also how is it stored? Like harddrive and even ram the info is 0s & 1s. How is it in our brain?
Any scientific answer or theroy or concept.

 

[MrDudeMan]

i have often wondered this, but never actually asked the question. [yoda]intrigued to know the answer, i am.[/yoda]

its not 0s and 1s. that is digital. it has to be analog. thats the only other choice obviously.

Interesting information

 

[Gibsons]

Long term potentiation is one theory, but iirc some real problems with it surfaced a little while back. Not sure what came of that.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Physiologically speaking, a memory is the result of chemical or even structural changes in synaptic transmissions between neurons. As these changes occur, a pathway is created - this pathway is called a memory trace.

How Stuff Works - The Brain

Human Memory

 

[aceofspades230]

Good question...I think we will have to wait another 5-20 years to fully understand the brain and how it works. If you want a more complicated guide than Howstuffworks you might as well ask a neurologist, which I am not.

 

[Anubis08]

Actually I believe Quantum physics deals with breaking everything down to basically ones and zeroes so that even what we experience is such and not just our memory. That is how it was explained to me.

 

[Jassi]

<joke>

RAID 20 Array of grey matter. The only catch is, there is no RMA option.

</joke>

 

[jagec]

TEH SMARTNESS IS KEPT IN A RAMDRIVE OF NEURONS

 

[megataxi]

Dude highly technical means computers not brains can someone lock this forum?

 

[SagaLore]

It's frequency refresh at the quantum level. Our need to sleep allows this refresh to... refresh itself. Ever notice how when you've been awake for a long time, you start to forget things?

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: megataxi
Dude highly technical means computers not brains can someone lock this forum?

Actually AFAIK he's in the right place:

This is a place to discuss the latest issues and technology in the fields of computer architecture and engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and other sciences.

 

[Toki]

Originally posted by: aceofspades230
Good question...I think we will have to wait another 5-20 years to fully understand the brain and how it works. If you want a more complicated guide than Howstuffworks you might as well ask a neurologist, which I am not.

i dont think we will ever fully understand the human brain, and if we do, it will be several centuries in the future.

 

[complacent]

Originally posted by: megataxi
Dude highly technical means computers not brains can someone lock this forum?

This IS the right place. This is highly technical and doesn't mean computers. Did it say, "Highly technical computers?" Also, can't you contribute something useful? Instead of locking this thread (not forum) how about you quit b!tching and NOT READ THE INITIAL POST.

 

[everman]

I've always wondered what's going on in the brain when you try to remember something, but don't recall the answer until a few seconds or even minutes later.
I mean you obviously know it because you "did" recall it eventually without any help, but why did it take so long? really pisses me off sometimes, lol.

...and yes megataxi, this forum is for all things highly technical whether it be computers, biology, or cosmology and anything in between.

 

[EightySix Four]

Agreed everman, why does something you've been wondering about for awhile never come to you when you need it, though 20 minutes later... it's like blam, considering our current knowledge of the brain that doesn't make sense to me.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: megataxi
Dude highly technical means computers not brains can someone lock this forum?

Actually AFAIK he's in the right place:

This is a place to discuss the latest issues and technology in the fields of computer architecture and engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and other sciences.

Not to mention that brains and computers aren't that different: http://www.tmeg.com/ai/brain.htm

 

[imported_kouch]

I theorize that the human brain is incapable of understanding its own workings fully

 

[pakigang]

Interesting to read all that!

Makes you wonder if AI can be as intellegent as a human brain, I mean that we make sugesstions, plans, think illogically & logically etc...

 

[alienal99]

physiological psychology is a very tough business, but a response was quite close to correct. The idea that memory is encoded in little ones and zeros is a lie. Inside of your brain is the hippocampal structure. It is basically a routing center for your memory and thinking. When you see, hear, or are reminded or actively thinking about a memory, the hippocampus "lights up" and finds where in your brain you have the synaptic connections to control a pathway that goes to that memory (as noted above). we do not know where exactly the memories are, although it must be located in your higher order cortex, as animals without a longterm memory have basically the same brain as us, except for the higher order cortex. Each memory is formed electically out of something, and then travels back to the hippocampus to be routed somewhere else. This is how scientists have done brain-machine interfacing in monkeys and other animals....by converting these electrical signals that travel down certain pathways (ie pathways to arms and legs to control robotic limbs)

a great resource for actual peer-reviewed journals on this subject is

http://www.gyre.org/news/relat...rtificial+Life/Cyborgs


alex

 

[Deskstar]

Just fall down on some concrete onto the side of your head, get knocked out (a concussion), bruise your temporal lobe on either side, so that the neurons swell and stop conducting their electronic impules (real electricity, ie circuits), then try to remember something... bingo your recent past is all forgotten.

Depending on your age, you should be OK within 6-12 months. However, if you are a professional football quarterback...you might not even know that you have lost a few neurons in that lobe. Your agent certainly will not tell you come contract time. So, who's to know. Repeated concussions will leave you permanently brain damaged. But, you may be happier that way.

Deskstar

 

[cirthix]

no single area of the brain stores memory, although some regions tend to store certain kinds of memory and do stuff with memory. for example, the hippocampus is similar to a switch, actign between thsese different areas and other parts of your brain to modify or read memories. memory is sort of like lossy compression that gets deposited in differnt places of the brain. i would type more, but i'm tired
goodnight all zzzzzzzzzzzzzz