Cause Quote by Eric Kandel

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

— Eric Kandel

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

— Michael Merzenich

“Concepts of memory tend to reflect the technology of the times. Plato and Aristotle saw memories as thoughts inscribed on wax tablets that could…

— Michael Specter

“Learning new information isn't helpful unless it can be recalled later. Anything that increases one's memory power increases access to everything learned.” ~ Richard…

— Kevin Horsley

All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the…

— Antonio Damasio

“Knowledge emerged about synapses, neurotransmitter-ology was born, and this idea was modified—a new memory requires the formation of a new synapse, a new connection…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Neurons that fire together wire together.” What this means in terms of memory is that the more intense the activity is between neurons constituting…

— David DiSalvo

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

— Milan Kundera

Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the synapse…

— Gerald Edelman

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

— Philippa Perry

Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up, it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung. Everything…

— Peter Russell

“The complexity of the resulting signalling network in the brain is almost unimaginable: one hundred billion neurons each with one thousand synapses, producing a…

— Michael O'Shea