cognitive psychology
After reading my textbook, I started thinking about where exactly memory is stored in the brain...or if that's even a fact. I know memory isn't a tangible thing. I also learned in class about the different areas that are involved in memory and cognitive processes. Yet, I can't help but wonder, "how is this all possible?" I mean, if you take someone
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Memory is in fact very abstract...an extremely complicated network that schoolbooks dumb down for the sake of learning about it. Memory is resultant of different cue networks...specifically senses, past experience, and interpretation as some of the sub-categories.
So lets say you take a black child from Africa that is starving..for him when u present him with a piece of bread it triggers the thought of food..which triggers a rare sensation and his emotions might be heightened ie he will get a fast ass heart rate, etc. and he will think of things like safety and less stress.
lets say you take you who has food everyday and dont necessarily NEED more food...if i present you with a piece of bread u might think BUTTER, MEAT, sandwich...you probly wont show much excitement or emotional ties that are often brought with strong memories.u might even get turned off since maybe u like rice or something else better.
so yea this is just a small simple example of how two people can make very different connections to a past stimulus.
and yes memory IS located deep in the brain, specifically the limbic system but it (like most other things in the brain) is cooperative and has to go many different places in the brain to be fully interpreted.
and for your later Q, the deceased person's memory didnt just up and poof...memory retrieval, like any kind of response to a stimulus, needs to be sent through chemical messengers through the brain. When someone is "deceased", their neurons are definitely not firing because their bodies are shut down and begin their decomposition (except for the rigor mortis - when ur muscles stiffen a few hrs after death because of a long-to-explain muscle property). So in conclusion, yes u cant retrieve memories because there is no way to transport the signals needed to retrieve those very memories. There isnt some long philosophical answer to the Qs u asked, its all in the science part...
I just hope this wasnt taking the religious part...science and religion should never mix...science will usually come out on top =x =].
that may sound very anti-religious and stuff...but thats only cuz it is haha. wow this was long holla 8-]
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HAHAHA!!!
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i'm reading this AFTER midterms hahah
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