Remember This: The Fascinating World of Memory

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4 The brain takes in information from each of the five senses sight smell hearing touch and taste FRANKRAMSPOTT SHUTTERSTOCK.COM ENCODING Encoding happens when we learn something or when information information comes to us through the five senses That's why I mentioned seeing your birthday party hearing your friends sing tasting cake feeling your grandfather's hug and smelling the sulfury smell as you blew out the candles Our senses allow us to perceive the world Without them we wouldn't have anything to remember A part of the brain called the hippocampus plays an important role in forming new memories Located deep inside the brain the hippocampus is shaped like a seahorse Think of the hippocampus as a train station Memories don't hang out there for long Instead they get processed and sent off to be stored in the parts of the brain responsible for long term memory