I’m sure you all know that you have both a short-term and a long-term memory. Many people think of those as separate things, and to us, it may seem that way. But in fact, the formation of short and long term memories in the brain is very intertwined, and a short-term memory can become a long-term one. What we don’t really know is HOW this happens. What makes the difference between remembering a phone number for a few minutes and remembering it for months? Turns out, it’s a simple tag.
Ballarini et al. “Behavioral tagging is a general mechanism of long-term memory formation.” PNAS, 2009.
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