Changed Quote by Antonio Damasio

Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to new changes…

— Pete Docter

Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.

— Eric Kandel

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as…

— Sarah Manguso

“Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.”

— Gerald Edelman

“Once your brain initially processes something, you are less likely to retain the information if you are not physically active in the period following…

— Tom Rath

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

— Ray Bradbury

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and…

— Li-Young Lee

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that…

— Eric Kandel

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

— John Gray

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

— Milan Kundera

I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it - when the synapses just start firing - I can't explain.

— Apollo Robbins

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later,…

— Joshua Foer