Storing Memories Without Destroying Previous Ones

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In the brain, memories are stored like books in a well-organized library, this s
In the brain, memories are stored like books in a well-organized library, this study concludes. © RUB, Marquard
The brain is constantly storing new experiences that it has to integrate into the jumble of existing memories. Surprisingly, it does not overwrite previous memory traces in the process.

The first day of school: entering the classroom for the first time, the excited feeling in your stomach and the joy of having a school bag - these are all typical examples of memories from our episodic memory. It stores unique personal episodes in a temporal and spatial order and links them to subjective experiences. ...
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