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Voldemort
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O.P. What are...
thoughts made of?
electric impulses?

How are memories stored?





And it makes me wonder
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04-24-2007 12:58 AM
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er....

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RE: What are...
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Originally posted by Voldemort
And it makes me wonder

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Aaaanyway...
If memories are stored in your brain (which they seem to be, as your memory can be damaged if you hit your head), then they should be stored by electric impulses... now clue how they are stored however, and how the brain can store that much information for that long.

Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

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and why can some animals (like the elephant) remember longer that others (the godd ol' fish!)

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04-24-2007 09:30 AM
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and why can some animals (like the elephant) remember longer that others (the godd ol' fish!)


When you look at the size of the cranium (skull) of an elephant, and compare it to the size of the cranium of a goldfish, it is easy to see that an elephant holds alot more grey matter and has capability to remember more.


http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5731/92
if you can be bothered to read the above link, it tells you (with alot of scientific terms and nonsense rubbish) how the brains stores and retrieves stuff... sort of :P;)

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RE: What are...
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How are memories stored?
There's a little leprechaun which writes down everything - sometimes he tells me to burn things.
04-24-2007 11:04 AM
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Heh, I read a book a lil while back, around Christmas methinks, and it said that memories were stored by a link of neurons in your brain. And the more links to that thought or thing in your brain(so the more neuron links) the easier it is to remember. (That's a very simplified version though, as I can't remember the details of it, I should really read that book again :P)

And yes, all signals in the brain are electrical signals. (AFAIK)
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It should be electronic impulses as someone mentioned before.

Also, some can remember more than others due to what parts of the brain they use and how big the size of the brain is.

It's all abit complex really.
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That's the great thing about life, we cannot explain it :)
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Originally posted by Kezzinator29
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5731/92
read that some days ago ;p
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