how is a engram and mental representation associated?
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The reactive mind does not store memories as we know them. It stores particular types of mental image pictures called engrams. Engrams are a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail, of every perception present in a moment of partial or full “unconsciousness.”\nSo then our analytical mind shuts down and reactive mind starts acting.It could b that engrams will not affect our mentality but sometimes they can have an impact due to associations which our brain forms during unconsciousness.\nThese associations, without logical analysis, may give rise to emotions such as fear, love, withdrawal, depression etc. which become active in similar conditions as those at unconsciousness.\nour mind never shuts down in unconscious situations too, for eg, a boy who might get dehydrated while playing on a hot sunny day, faints and lays unconscious, may hear voices of people around, like his frnds....call his mother soon, or bring some water, he may smell the mus on ground etc. Later in life he wud get a headache in sun, or may start avoiding that smell of mud, or feel uncomfortable in such a situation.He may avoid hot hours of the day, unknowingly, even if its not too hot outside.\nI did my best to explain, i hope that tells u what u wanted t know, if u already have the correct answer by now, plz do tell me about it.
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Memories are not necessarily created in isolation but rather in context.  When you were in your workshop you intended to do something but went upstairs to get something you need in the shop.  On the way you think of something else you need to do that day and the new thought dumps the old thought from short-term memory.  When you return to the shop, perhaps you see a tool you laid out or the item you planned to work on and you remember once again what you need upstairs.  This can go on and on for hours if you have a busy mind - and don't us post-its <G>.  People who never forget may have single-track minds.
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Every new skill (and thought and emotion) tries to resolve itself against the patterns of your previous experience..  That is, if it is recognised as something familiar, then those linkages (neuronic connections) are reinforced.  Totally new information must create NEW linkages to your OLD information.  This process MUST be repeated (learning) or you will not remember the new information for long
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I don't personally be live in a soul, and would attribute consciousness to the process of the brain. However I have to admit that it is hard to explain past lives. It might be due to information read, or heard or absorbed in some other way that is then manifested in a false memory.
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It seems to refer to presenting a problem in multiple formats -- verbal, pictorial, physical -- as either a way of facilitating cognitive assimilation or deciding which is easiest to assimilate.  In other words, since people learn best in different ways it's often useful to teach a particular topic using different representations -- not just a lecture, but perhaps a lecture with slides, or a lecture with slides and a practicum.\n\nThe physiology is part of the field of cognition, which studies how the human brain assimilates information. \n\nAnyway, if you do a yahoo search on "multiple representation" cognition (use the quotes around multiple representation) you'll find a lot more information on this topic.  Good luck  :)
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They are integrally tied in a unity of the physical and the unexplained.\n\nOur brain is....\nA convoluted, layered lump of micro-neuron pudding.\nFats and proteins forming electrochemical paths and branches.\nThe branches and paths develop loose circuits which react and modify themselves according to incoming sensory stimulus.\n\nSpontaneous interactions within the circuits, creating cascades of intangible formulations. A foundation of learned response and cause and effect experience allows the formulations to shape themselves into what we refer to as "thoughts". Thinking a volume of collective thoughts forges a "mind" or a "sentient consciousness". \n\nIf an individual's central nervous system is rendered defective, is not the mind affected as well? Of course.\n\nIn accompaniment with all this bio-stuff, is what we believe is a spirit or soul. The soul is part of God's realm and interacts with the sceintific brain in a constant struggle. This is the source of the "quiet thoughts". Your "concience"! If you can learn to "listen" to your spirit ALONG with your biological brain, you will acheive harmony.\nYour life will change.\n\nI hope this helps....I'm still working at it!
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did you know meditating has been linked to thicker cortexes which is where concentration and memory is?  Anyway check out the source link I provided for the answer to your question.  Happy meditating
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A reasonable answer could be given if you believe in soul concept.\n \nI think Mind indeed is a separate entity but in spiritual realm. In physical realm....Mind and our body functions are interrelated. Thoughts arise in Mind, then we weigh the thoughts(good vs. bad) and then we do the action(either physical or mental). Ofcourse all these things happen very fast.\n\nI dont think thoughts arise only from what we see. What about dreams that we get. Sometimes the dreams are so wierd that its unlike anything we have clearly seen and remembered. Ofcoruse it the characters in the dream might be familiar but the story or incident that we get in dreams are some times so wierd that it did not happen but its very well orchestrated. I think Mind can manifest its own story sometimes without us seeing or hearing at that moment.
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associate your study material with your daily life activity, or some past experience that you have had, These events will never get wiped out from your memories as you have experienced them personally. Hence, by associating them with your study you can recollect the material whenever you want.
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The brain doesn't store information on ordered cards like a library catalogue.  It has an area where the idea of the noun is encoded, with connections to things relating to that noun; an area where the idea of an adjective is encoded, with connections to the areas that relate to the ideas behind that adjective (such as regions in the visual cortex or auditory cortex etc. that relate to the sensory information that forms the basis of the adjective); and connections between the two areas that facilitates the use of a given adjective for a given noun, mediated by connections that control grammatcal structures in language.
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It is a debated topic.  If you search Google and Wikipedia for terms like "cognition" and "neuropsychology," you will turn up a variety of opinions and research.  But really generally speaking, when you are trying to remember something, they can see different synapses firing more rapidly in your brain...
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Yes, it's generally considered the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for higher-level planning and evaluation.  I recommend reading the macabre but interesting stroy of Phineas Gage, linked below, to get a sense of what happens when this area is damaged.
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Your mind and your imagination.
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Our thought are information and dependent on the physical reality of brain. You can not project your thoughts beyond the confines of your brain, unless they are piggy-backed on a transfer wave, such as the intelligence of radio waves is piggy-backed on carrier waves; all physical. You are confused, because instead of getting a proper education in these matters, you wish to believe some form of " alternative " explanation to reality.
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depends on what type of person you are.\n\nIf you are linear, logical, and you remember things using numbers or logical orders then you use the left side.  \n\nIf you are a very creative person and you remember things using pictures or symbols then you are using the right side of your brain.
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UCI researchers prove a single memory is processed in three separate parts of the brain\n\nFinding important for search to understand memory disorders\n\nIrvine, Calif., February 2, 2006\n\nUCI researchers have found that a single brief memory is actually processed differently in separate areas of the brain – an idea that until now scientists have only suspected to be true. The finding will influence how researchers examine the brain and could have implications for the treatment of memory disorders caused by disease or injury.\n\nThe results were published this week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nIn a study using rats, researchers Emily L. Malin and James L. McGaugh of UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory demonstrate that while one part of the brain, the hippocampus, is involved in processing memory for context, the anterior cingulate cortex, a part of the cerebral cortex, is responsible for retaining memories involving unpleasant stimuli. A third area, the amygdala, located in the temporal lobe, consolidates memories more broadly and influences the storage of both contextual and unpleasant information.
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Sure. Where is your mind located? \n\nI know we can read electrical brainwave activity as well as use a variety of machines to detect chemical changes in the brain, but when you think a thought (such as a day at the beach) where is that image in your mind actually located?\n\nThe most recent scientific theories treat such notions as simply "ghosts in the machine", arguments that are secondary to the electro-chemical function of the brain. I disagree.\n\nThe only way to prove a thought exists is (currently) in the eye of the beholder. To everyone else (in spite of our machines) it does not exist.\n\nIf our everyday thoughts are non-locational, yet exist then we have a very personal and immediate proof of the non-location nature (matrix nature) of the universe.\n\nLife is a dream. Our bodies are an illusion, only our thoughts and awareness are real.