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How the Brain Keeps Its Memories in the Right Order

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past

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This article focuses on how the brain creates a “time stamp” of memories.  It is an article that focuses on the neuroscience of memory and brain function.  “Theoretical and experimental studies are piecing together how the brain creates a temporal context for ordering memories — a kind of trailing timeline that gets blurrier for events receding into the past.”  It is fascinating but may be difficult for introductory students and thus might be of better use in an upper level course.  However, those students in an introductory class who are interested in both neuroscience and cognitive memory studies will find it very engaging.

SOURCE

Qunata Magazine, February 12, 2019, by Jordana Cepelwicz

LINK TO RESOURCE

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-creates-a-timeline-of-the-past-20190212/

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CLASS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

•What is the explained difficulty in understanding how the brain processes a timeline in memory formation?

•What areas of the brain are believed to be involved with the “time stamp” and memory?

•What is now believed to be the process by which the brain creates a timeline?