Memories be it good or bad stores in our brain cells called neurons (nerve cells). The neuronal activity when a particular stimulus is released follows a particular pattern forming a threadlike by connecting all the neurons resulting in the formation of a new memory.

In other words, when a new memory is formed let’s say a,b,c neurons are connected forming a particular pattern and to form another new memory it forms in a different pattern connecting the same neurons or different neurons.

 So whenever we think of the old memory the stimulus that is formed follows the particular pattern connecting the particular neurons that’s been formed when it is been created.

So when we say we vaguely remember about particular memory it means that the neuronal connectivity among those neurons is weakened which means the stimulus did not connect all the neurons related to that memory.

Since our childhood in all our science textbooks we studied neurons can’t be regenerated, certainly not in all parts of the brain but in the hippocampus part of the brain which plays an important role in the memory – new neurons can be regenerated with the help of the technic called neurogenesis.

 This helps in improving the memory and recent studies suggest we can increase the volume of the hippocampus which leads to the formation of new neurons.

No wonder the human brain is compared to electronic computers, but do all the living organisms exhibit the same memory mechanism, definitely not.

Studies show that a dog can forget an event within 20 mins and remembers only the required information for it to survive. Chimpanzees, which are said to be the closest living relatives to humans forget within 20 seconds, so it is believed that our brain evolved as we branched out from the common ancestors which are over six million years ago.

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