How We Construct and Lose Our Memories

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Step 1: Address the following questions in discussion in one paragraph for each of the three question items:

Questions

  1. How memories formed at the following levels?

Molecular: What is long-term potentiation (LTP)?

Cellular: How is the hippocampus important for memory?

System: How widely are memories distributed in the brain?

  1. How would you distinguish amnesia from normal forgetting? When would you call an absent-minded person amnesic?
  2. What’s better: A memory that records objectively and accurately, or a memory that can be updated to support newer levels of understanding?

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