I always thought of the brain as a giant file cabinet that primarily stored my images. When I wanted to retrieve something my memory looked that up. Kind of like Google. NOT SO.
1A. The brain actually does NOT store whole images, but dissects or breaks down parts of the whole. In other words we store fragments and then reassemble them.
Let’s take sight as an example of one of the five senses that collects data. When you see an image you see vertical lines, horizontal lines, curves, shapes, lights, darks, shades of color, brightness, contrast and a lot more. All these are stored in different file cabinets around the brain. When we go to remember what we have seen, the brain pulls from the numerous file cabinets various fragments and forms a whole picture. The other senses have various fragments too. Previously brain researchers have discovered this through victims with brain damage and from testing gifted individuals. Now in real time they can watch where an image is scattered throughout the brain. We were built with these various file cabinets because it allows us to imagine and create by mixing and matching the various fragments. Kind of like the game Mr. Potato Head where we mix and match head parts to create.
1B If there were no fragments, you would not have the flexibility to imagine and create, plus we would not be able to solve problems.
Those who understand the various fragment categories and how they interrelate, increase their communications skills exponentially. In other words, the more you understand the artistic boundaries of the fragment file cabinets (vertical lines, horizontal lines, curves, shapes, lights, darks, shades of color, brightness, motion, contrast and others), and how they effect emotion, the better you will become at communication, creating and problem solving.
1C Movement gives perspective to the images.
To put it another way, the mind learns because of movement. Movement can not only be in images, but the way the wind blows gently over the skin, or the sound wave bouncing off the solid objects. Movement is essential for learning especially in the first year of life ehre our neurons are firing at 3 times the rate of an adult. Movement is also one of the reasons we dream in motion and not stills. It makes an assemblence of fragments and helps shape our emotion.
Go to Page 3 where you will find answers to questions 2 & 3:
What is “playback” and why is it essential to long-term memory?
and
How do you get your hippocampus and cortex to play tennis?
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