how does our brain remember things?

Question

does the brain store the stuff we want to remember into our brain cells...? or it tranfroms the information into something else...?

Answer 1

This has not been fully understood yet.
One good model is that the brain stores memories by having special paths, a pattern of activated and inhibited neurons firing, and that this pattern is what makes a memory; so in essence, this could be similar to how an hologram records images.
Finding out how the brain works is still a big challenge.

Answer 2

There are many different ideas on how the brain stores memories. One theory is that every time we learn something, synapses in the brain are reconfigured into a new pattern, creating a new set of neuro-synaptic connections in the brain. The neurons in those connections store a small amount of crystalline RNA, that RNA is basically the lowest level of memory. But that is only theoretical, How the Human brain actually stores memory is practically impossible to figure out, because there are over 10 billion neurons in the Human Central Nervous system.

Answer 3

Actually, brain scientists still don't know for sure. The details of the electrochemical and neuron connections that store memories has been the subject of scientific study for many years. The brain is a highly complicated thing but we have new tools for observing the brain at work. These include CAT scan, PET scans, and MRI instruments and probably others. Prior to the development of these tools, we were very limited in how we could study brain functions (it is hard to get volunteers willing to let you stuck things into their brain while they are still using their brain). It is really pretty fascinating stuff. If you google brain research, you'll probably find all sorts of information.

Answer 4

It's thought that stuff we want to remember is stored in a part of our brain - like, how some parts of our brains supposedly control movement, sight, hearing... etc.. No one is 100% sure, because studying the brain is not exactly easy (or cheap). It can't be conducted quickly either. The brain is a complex system.

Answer 5

No one knows how memory works. It's one of the biggest question that still remain a mystery. We understand some of the psychology behind it, like short-term vs. long-term memory, but in terms of the actual biochemistry for individual cells we realoly have no idea. I've heard hypotheses about memory being stored in RNA molecules in the brain, but no one knows. We have traced different activites in different parts of the brains for memory though. The person who finds out prolly will get a Nobel.

Answer 6

It stores the information as neurons, if it becomes something else, it is due to neuronal decay or recombination.

Answer 7

It remembers in a similar fashion as your computer, in a chemical molecular structure.

Answer 8

it is interesting. but i know that they havenot find the true answer yet i hope oneday ..