Intuition, Memory Help Us Keep Track of Numbers

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Memory
William Pope

10/20/2012 12:51:31 PM

 Another possibility is the memory trace establishes its basic chunks of meaning early in life, and by practicing rote memorization, I am merely consolidating the basic pieces into a string of connected pieces that can be remembered as a new 'chunk'. As we get older, the chunks become larger and more elaborate. This reciting of rote memorization might simply increase the recall for that specific 'chunk' that assimilates into my frontal cortex. This probably won't increase your memory in general, just for that specific chunk. By repeating memorized phrases, I believe you are only going to strengthen connections to that phrase, and your overall memory capacity wont significantly change. I'm just exploring a possibility... and on a side note, has anyone proposed a sequence of brain activity starting with the right hemisphere processing from right-to-left, and sending information into the frontal region, followed by a left-brain processing from right-to-left of the frontal information in language/symbolic expression that, after processing, results in the visual interpretation of that language coming to rest in the same location in the frontal region? The memories formed from the right-brain interpretation overlap in the frontal lobe with the same memories of symbolism that exist in the left-brain. I believe I am the first to propose this, I would appreciate some dialogue on this one, if you have time to clarify with a few questions...