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In and out Sensory nerve Motor nerve
Nerves are the connections between your brain
and your body. Sensory nerves send the
brain messages from sensors in your
body such as ears, which detect sounds,
and nerve ends in your skin, which
react to touch. Motor nerves go out
from your brain telling muscles to move.
Remember, remember
Your brain creates memories by making new 1 Sensory memory: your senses
connections between brain cells in three stages. go on seeing, hearing, or feeling
something a short while after it
stops.
Sensory Short-term Long-term 2 Short-term memory: your
memory memory memory brain stores something like a
Sensory name just long enough to pass
input it on.
3 Long-term memory: your
brain makes strong connections
so that you remember things for
a long time.
Forgetting
Forgetting
Memories for keeps
Some memories fade quickly, but psychologists have found
your brain keeps memories longer in various ways.
Your brain learns some things Other things you learn Still other memories are
only by repeated practice, more quickly, such as formed by individual
such as playing football people’s names or facts dramatic incidents. This is
or the piano. This is called for school. This is called called episodic memory.
implicit memory. semantic memory.
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