This research study compares which areas of the brain are active during remembering and which are active during imagining. Guess what! They are often the same areas. I was also interested in the different kinds of memories people have -- episodic (events), semantic (words), and generalized knowledge. One scientist commented that episodic memory seemed to be the most important for thinking about the future. The scientists hope to use their findings to help people with memory problems.
What are your thoughts on this article? Do you remember events like people and places or words better? Do you think you would like to study the brain?
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This article is very interesting. I think that the scientist's comment is true. Episodic I think is the most important memory because remembering events is important on many occasions in the future. I remember places better I think than any thing else. Evan through the brain has many things I don't know yet, and it is very interesting I probably would't want to study the brain because a lot of things that have to do with the brain are very complicated, and I don't think that I would be able to understand them all.
Morgan C.
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