Christof Koch - How does Memory Work?

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We all wish for better memories. But how are memories stored? For all our neuroscience, we still do not know even the level in the brain where memories are stored—from inside neurons to long brain circuits. We do know that the synapses between neurons in the brain are critical, but how those chemical changes mean a specific memory remains a mystery.



Christof Koch is an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural bases of consciousness.


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even crazier is how dreams drag out memories and also create situations that have never happened!

evanjameson
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Not exactly memory…but in a dream how can we be experiencing new actions..situations that can surprise…like someone coming from around the corner…we are both surprised and the creator of the very situation that surprises us simultaneously

christopherwall
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I was going to watch this last week but forgot all about it.

davidcopson
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The irony of the brain is trying to understand it’s own functions.

Bassotronics
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So form is thought. Form is memory, so there’s no space or time. Wow, thank you. Brilliant. 💕

hgracern
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So, if I'm getting this correctly; given enough repetition and reinforcement, the brain - which might normally employ a wide array of neurons to process the sensory input each time - dedicates a special subset of neurons or localized network to create a kind of macro for the sake of efficiency?

Cuckoorex
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Repost. I remember this colorful shirt 😁😆

ingenuity
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See this guy is different than others, he actually has a point, and gives a very important clue.!!

superjaykramer
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I wonder how and why we FORGET things. I would guess that at some point after not having activated a circuit of neurons for quite some time, this circuit gets weaker and weaker until it's gone. Maybe it's re-used for something else then. But on the other hand it's often possible to re-activate those circuits and memories through hypnosis, or suddenly a certain smell will activate a memory you didn't think about for decades. Also there are some people who are basically unable to forget things. They can tell you exactly what they did at 5 o'clock on a day that was 30 years ago and how the weather was on that day, and they've got perfect memory about every single day in their lives. So forgetting things probably doesn't serve the purpose to free up and re-allocate the limited storage space like a computer's hard-drive.

thenephilim
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Hmmm is he an expert or someone they dragged off the street?

matthewratcliffe
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Impossible picture billions neurons works fastest, he of course Not know how neurons process in memory. He eletrics in brains are estimule memory but anti. scientif . Eletric in brains to control disfuncion brains Not solve problem. Neurosience figure out brains system, so reserchers in neuro is by product Science.

maxwellsimoes
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Just because when you stimulate some region of the brain you remember something does not imply that the memory is stored at that location. Imagine if you thought the same thing about a TV. You stimulate a small region of the TV and the color blue appears. Would that necessarily mean that part of the TV has the color blue stored there or even is critical in processing blue? Of course not, yet in sense, this is the kind of logic that materialists apply to understand the brain. Everything about the person absolutely MUST be in the brain is their unwavering premise, so the results of their experiments are framed as such. And yet in near-death experiences, the brain is basically off, and some report fantastic experiences. How do you deal with that? An oxygen-starved brain suddenly produces intense out-of-the-world experiences? They've tried it before, and it absolutely does not. So what's going on with the near-death experiences if the total whole of what makes us, us is stored in one's brain?

domitron
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Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.

B.S...
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The p-nus neuron fires for Jennifer Aniston, lol...for me at least.

botcrack
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My smoke alarm is only activated when smoke is around, but it doesn't have a "memory" for smoke.

danzigvssartre
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Are there memory neurons for words as well?

jamesruscheinski
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I now have a specific neuron that will fire when I think of that shirt. Which will be every few seconds for the rest of my life

alicoops
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This is my opinions of how to actually strengthen your human mind memory. Computer programming and thinking for yourself such as writing your own book or analyzing a book you are reading with diction (word-choice).
1. Annotate fiction/non-fiction books
2. Computer programming
-Problem-Solving
- Logical-Reasoning
- Computational Thinking
- First Principal Thinking
-Mathematical Problem-Solving
Force your brain to think so your mind can unleash its full-potential to directly influence your choices. You let it judge yourself, choices lead to consequences to make S.M.A.R.T decisions in your life. Your brain is like a bio-electromagnetism (a biological brain with sparks of electricity, also electricity can be absorbed conducted to flow of electricity directly to the network of biological neurons or metal conductivity. If you can force your brain to think then you will “feel” of how to problem-solving thinking in a logical perspective/viewpoints. Also applied math is important in S.T.EA.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics). Mathematical Engineering in Computer Science! Exploration is a curiosity leading to a destiny thus increasing growth mindsets rather than fixed mindsets. Let’s look at Albert Einstein or Sir. Issac Newton, both have their own independent thoughts without relying someone’s thoughts 💭, this causes their curiosity, focus, concentration for long periods of time is a testament of their legacy. The mainstream media or social media is a leading distraction to the people of the global society, discouraging innovative thoughts. The thought-process leads to consequences of the human decision. Explore your own Great Unique Mind! I always or usually meditate to visually “see” what my physical brain looks like to simulate instead of using an but this is difficult to do so which requires a great deal of mental imagination 💭.

Mnerd
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My Jennifer Aniston Neuron doesn't get used that often. Stop wasting space, Neuron.

Zsokorad
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Best channel on Twitch. Dread the day you stop uploading.

speckdfuture