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Memory is the ability to encode, store, and recall information. In animals, this occurs in a brain or brain-like process. In computers, this occurs on a device like a hard drive or RAM chip.
In humans, as in many other animals, there is short-term and long-term memory. Short-term memory is working memory, and information stored there lasts for a few seconds to a few minutes. To be saved, information must pass from short-term to long-term memory.
In computers, short-term memory is volatile memory like RAM and long-term memory is non-volatile like hard drive or flash memory.
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Fast Facts
- The average human can only recall 5-9 numbers from short-term memory
- Odors can be associated with animal memories to improve their recall
- In the mammalian brain, the amygdala is responsible for spatial learning
- It takes up to a half-second for sensory memory to begin, once something has been perceived
- It's estimated that computer memory is about 10,000 times more powerful in humans than the average desktop computer in 2009.
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Attn #astrology fans: I've just decided to do an analysis of Malcolm X's natal chart soon...From memory, he has Venus in Gemini (like me!)
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Sweet tour de memory lane - I grew up on anime, and @CrunchyRoll (via their #Boxee app) brings it all back.
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Berlin Wall 20th Anniversary: Germany Celebrates Memory Of Its Falling
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