Paper Summary:

Looking at the intriguing topic of human memory, this paper explores how human life revolves around our memories - without memory life would be strange and unknown as humans would have to re-experience everyday with no knowledge of friends and family. The author discusses the different types of memory that enables humans to hold different information for different periods of time and also the stimuli that our brains responds to in triggering memories. After establishing the relationship between emotions and memory, the paper goes on to explain how learning activities, and how a person engages in such activities, will produce changes in the brain that will register in our memory. The author also touches on memory loss due to trauma and diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Outline:
Introduction
The Brain and Memory
Learning and Memory
Creative Testing
Memory Loss and Disease
References

From the Paper:

"While our memory serves us well, it has a tendency to be protective of us. It does this by throwing out the little bits of useless information that might otherwise become burdensome; and it stores in a remote region of the brain those experience or things that we do not want to deal with, cannot find the strength in ourselves to deal with at a particular point in time. Albert Einstein was always receiving questions by fans and others as to his great capacity for thinking and memory. He is credited with having responded to one question about how he maintained his brain's incredible capacity for problem solving by saying that he retained only the information that was useful and necessary, and discarded that information which was not useful or necessary."

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