The Memory

While searching for the physical location of the memory (called ‘the Engram’) in the brain, researcher Karl Lashley concluded that the brain works as a whole to store memories. This idea is known as ‘equipotentiality’. This means that the memories are not stored in any one specific part of our brain. More recent studies show that memories are stored in multiple regions of the brain and are interlinked to each other through neurons. Indeed, different memory sectors use different part of our brain. To make it easy to understand and to facilitate the analysis, researchers have come up with stage theories of memories, which in fact are quite convincing as well! The different stages of memory are as follows:

-          Sensory Memory

-          Short Term Memory

-          Long Term Memory

In our upcoming articles, we shall be discussing each one of them so that it will be easier for you to understand the memory mechanism and interpret them.