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How does the brain determines which information is important enough to be stored vs what isn’t?

>> No.11415237

>>11415234
We barely know how it’s stored in the first place never mind sorting by importance

>> No.11415240

Your pic made me think of the word saliency, which answers your question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(neuroscience)#Neuroanatomy

The brain component named the hippocampus helps with the assessment of salience and context by using past memories to filter new incoming stimuli, and placing those that are most important into long term memory. The entorhinal cortex is the pathway into and out of the hippocampus, and is an important part of the brain's memory network; research shows that it is a brain region that suffers damage early on in Alzheimer's disease,[3] one of the effects of which is altered (diminished) salience.[4]

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>>11415234
repetitive trauma/stimulation

>> No.11415278

>>11415234
Whatever hits the reward center in the brain, everything else is forgotten.

>> No.11415295

>>11415234
You usually have some sort of goal going on, OP. Like feeling pleasure, getting rewarded, feeling good, not getting hurt, not getting yelled, not feeling bad, etc.
Feedback from stuff like that strengthens signal paths that contributed to good ends and lets signal paths that didn't contribute so much lay fallow.

>> No.11415298

>>11415234
subconscious part of the brain stores the relevant stuff based on your past experiences