Question

What are the three main activities associated with long term memory?

Answer 1

Long term memory:

1. The long term memory is used to store information for a longer duration.
2. From short-term memory to long-term memory, information is conveyed after a short period.
3. Contrary to short-term memory, long-term memory has some decay.
4. The long-term potential is an intensified response, taking place at the synapse inside the hippocampus. It is required to store memory.

The main activities associated with long-term memory are :

1. Storage: This involves the perception of a particular sensory stimulus and its transmission to the respective storage area in the brain (for example visual stimuli are stored in the visual cortex)
2. Deletion: This involves the deletion of the section of the sensory input that isn't that significant. The decision of prioritizing deleted segments is made by the cortex.
3. Retrieval: this involves restoring information that was deleted and consolidating it for storage.