I study biology, chemistry and psychology, and I spend a lot of my spare time reading about how memory works.
This is where I keep what I am learning: notes on papers I have read, the questions they leave me with, and the small bits of work I do to understand them a little better.
I am most curious about how the brain holds on to a memory.
I took biology, chemistry and psychology together because I kept running into the same questions in all three. Biology taught me about cells and neurons, chemistry about what they are made of, and psychology about how we actually study the mind. The place where they overlap is where I would like to work.
I read research papers because I enjoy them, not only for school. When I come across something I do not understand, I read around it, write it out in my own words, and see whether I can take the idea a step further. I am hoping to study biological sciences or neuroscience at university.
How an experience becomes a physical change inside the brain, and how that change manages to last.
The molecules and mechanisms inside a cell, and the chemistry that keeps all of it running.
How psychologists design a fair experiment and decide what a result is really telling them.
A review of how a memory is stored in the brain: which cells hold it, and the molecular changes that keep the trace in place over time.
[Richie: what you understood, a question it left you with, or a small bit of work you did because of it.]
[One or two sentences on what the paper found, in your own words.]
[Your own thoughts, a question, or a follow-up you tried.]
[What it is, and what you were trying to work out.]
[What you learned from doing it.]
If you have a question, a reading suggestion, or anything you think I would find interesting, please do get in touch.