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03/04/07 ~ Published By Author: Multiuser Published In: Homework
and Study Skills ~ Article Views: 2729  The Human Memory  by
James McLean Bowie  Human memory is quite an intricate subject,
although memory is not fully understood by modern science we can
go a long way in defining how our memory works. We know that our
memory is controlled in the Cerebral Cortex and memory and
personality is found to be controlled in the Hippocampus. Loss
of memory, quite often seen as the onset of Alzheimer's disease,
is usually caused by a build up of an abnormal protein called
beta-amyloid, this deposits plaques outside of neurons, the
neurons which are most affected are found in the cerebral
cortex.  On defining our memory we find that it is the
preservation of information over a period of time through
storage, encoding, and retrieval. To have something that is to
be considered memory, you must be able to take it in, store it,
and then retrieve it when it is