Everything Worth Knowing About ... How We Learn

Amnesiacs, memory champions and rats, oh my!

By Teal Burrell
Jan 20, 2016 12:00 AMMay 21, 2019 5:27 PM
Everything Worth Knowing About ... How We Learn
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Every day, we flood our brains with new information and different experiences, packing even more memories into our vast collection. But how does that process play out? In the past 200 years, psychologists and neuroscientists have worked to learn how our brains learn.

Researchers continue to piece together how the brain forms memory. Here are a few regions thought to be involved:

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