How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?

The phrase at 02:57 “language areas are decoding my words” might accidentally make it sound as if there is just a separate speech coding and decoding language module. In reality, language is much more deeply connected with concepts, categorization, our mental model of the world, and thought itself. I know simplifications are necessary, but I’d absolutely love to see a whole Kurzgesagt video about language and thinking - it would be fascinating!

Thank you! ❤

My brain can replay one embarrassing moment from 2009 in 4K, but can’t remember why I walked into the kitchen.

5:10 "Everytime was confused by something in a kurzgesagt video" 😅

Learning how memories are formed can help you remember things better. For example, I've adopted the methodology that in order to remember something reliably, I need to be able recall that memory out of the context it was made in. So when studying for a test, I try to remember what I studied when I'm doing something else, like eating, or driving. This increases the "connections" I have to that memory and I'll have an easier time recalling it since there's more than one way to access it.

12:47 It's OK to "ret-con" your own lore 💚

Summer evenings + kurzgesagt = heaven

11:58 Reminds me of the explanation of the Backrooms in the movie. "The more it remembers, the less it does."

Thanks, Kurzgesagt. I will now forever remember the memory of a squirrel fighting a crow over a nut, only for a rat to steal it.
Was it a rat or a mouse?
Wait, what type of nut?
Was the crow on the left or on the right?
What???

I need to sleep.

"The more times it remembers"
"The less it does"

Eyewitness testimony used to be thought of as the gold standard for evidence in court. Today, it is often comes under scrutiny in court as fleeting, wavering, or frivolous. This is why it's important to document consequential events as they happen and journel about it within a few hours, or at least before you sleep again and your subconscious refashions the memory into whichever form it supposes is most adaptive.

9:24 Without proper sleep, you're wasting your life time (since you remember less of it). My takeaway from this nice video.

You should do a video about SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) or Aphantasia in general. The topic is super fascinating and way more people should be aware of it!

I love how my brain is literally built to store important information, yet whenever I have a test, the only thing I remember is a stupid song I heard a year ago

This makes me sad. It made me realize just how damaging social media, news, and advertisement is, for they all attempt to grab your attention by sparking emotions, often anger. They're rewriting who you are for the sake of profit. It's sickening

Can't wait until the memory of the crow squirrel fight becomes so warped that I would think I witnessed it personally

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My earliest "memory" is from when I was about 3, I was sitting on a big dog statue at an amusement park. But I don't actually remember the experience. I remember being about 5, and seeing a picture of this, and saying "I remember that!". And I don't remember ever remembering anything before that. My current "memory" of the experience is something my brain has created over the years from remembering all the times I remembered remembering it. 🤯

0:48 "The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe." -The human brain

Finally a video where the universe doesn't end

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