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What turns an experience into a memory? Cognitive scientists often describe the human memory system as an information filing mechanism. Data comes in; the brain encodes it, stores it and then retrieves it when prompted.
Contrary to the simplistic view this description unintentionally implies and the fact that many people accept memory as just an archive of stored data, memory is really a complex construction of experience and thought pulled from many sources that science is just beginning to understand.
While there is some variation among scientists in explaining how the brain collects and stores memory, according to The Brain From Top to Bottom, a website published by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Institute of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addiction, one generally accepted model classifies memory according to the duration of retention. This method of classification divides memory into three distinct systems — sensory memory, short-term (or working memory) and long-term memory.
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