More Revealing Truth About Our Memory Banks

Caroline de Braganza
8 min readMay 10, 2019
(Source: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay)

We Reach Our Final Destination — Long-Term Memory

In the last story, we ended where Brain, the customs officer, has allowed entry of the memory packets and forwarded them to our distribution center — the hippocampus, where a short-term memory hangs around for 20–30 seconds and then disappears if we don’t engage our working memory, in other words pay…

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Caroline de Braganza

Wise Older Woman (WOW). Poetry, essays, humor. Passion for mental health, social justice, politics, diverse cultures, the world and environment.