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Your Brain

Long-Term Memory,How to Enhance Your Memory,

andHow the Connections Grow

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Long-Term Memory is an Abstract Concept (So Let’s Use An Analogy)

Long-Term Memory is part of your brain’s filing system. It has at least 2 filing cabinets.

Each filing cabinet has different drawers with different kinds of memories.

Explicit Memory

Implicit Memory

Semantic Episodic

ProceduralClassically-Conditioned

Priming

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The Drawers Have Specific NamesExplicit or

Declarative ◦Semantic ◦Episodic

Implicit or Non-declarative◦Procedural◦Classically-Conditioned◦Priming

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So Let’s Look at Your Drawers

Explicit or Declarative (Conscious Recall)◦ Semantic (Facts and

General Info)◦ Episodic (Personal

Experiences and Events)

Implicit or Non-declarative (No Conscious Recall)◦ Procedural (Motor

Skills and Habits)◦ Classically-

Conditioned (Response to Conditioned Stimuli)

◦ Priming (Earlier Exposure)

Explicit Memory

Implicit Memory

Semantic Episodic

Procedural

Classically-Conditioned

Priming

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The Concept of Long-Term Memory

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Your brain stores different parts of your Long-Term Memory in different physical sections.

When your brain needs a memory, it activates that physical section & extracts the memory.

Like a computer gets data from its memory storage.

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And what if the data isn’t in the correct drawer when your brain

searches for the missing piece?

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Want to enhance your memory?

Try the process of SQ4R

1.Survey

2.Question

3.Read

4.Recite

5.Review

6.Write

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To Remember Better, Use the Process of SQ4R

Survey

Question

Read

Recite

Review

Write

It works for anything you want to remember

Try it today.

What is something you want to remember better, longer, more solidly?

For school? For fun?For work?

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What memory do you want to build?For a stronger, more solid, enhanced

memory, SQ4R

Survey

Question

Read

Recite

Review

Write

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Learning modifies the brain’s neural networks in 2 ways

1. Dendrites grow more spines, more synapses, more receptor sites, more sensitivity

What does growing more spines (branches) mean?

“I have 3 branches”

“I have 4 branches. I am learning more.”

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Learning modifies the brain’s neural networks in 2 ways

1. Dendrites grow more synapses, more receptor sites, more sensitivityWhat does that mean?

(go see Wikipedia)

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Synapses and Receptor Sites

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Learning modifies the brain’s neural networks in 2

ways

1. Dendrites grow more spines, more synapses, more receptor sites, more sensitivity

Link to photo *

Link to photo *

* From university library of educational use permissions12

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The Second Way2. Neurons increase their ability to

release neurotransmitters

Neurotransmitters are the chemicals that jump the gap between neurons.Want to know more? (go to Wikipedia)

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