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How does that work in visual memory, does it break and fix it too and that quickly? I have strong visual memory that I remember back in school I used to remembe
by tamimio 3y ago
How does that work in visual memory, does it break and fix it too and that quickly? I have strong visual memory that I remember back in school I used to remember the page and it’s page number just by looking at it for few seconds, and if I saw a face for a second even randomly anywhere, I can recall when and where for a long period after.. I find it hard to imagine or rather scary all that is breaking/fixing the dna..
- softfalcon 3y agoMy guess would be that it’s not all happening at once as you have short and long term memory. The simplest analogy is that your short term memory is a buffer that doesn’t use DNA, but a limited electro chemical storage of new present-moment information. Then it is transcribed through several steps of ever longer term storage methods in the brain. Some of which require sleep.
- sva_ 3y agoThe article doesn't seem to claim that this is the only mechanism, even if the title seems to suggest so.
- RaftPeople 3y agoThere is a lot of activity with DNA for long term potentiation even without this breaking/fixing stuff. Learning requires epigenetic modifications to DNA in the neuron. DNA near the synapse (not necessarily in the Soma) is altered to produce the proteins that sustain the synapse at new level.