Memory consolidation, emotional encoding, and the neuroscience of false belief formation
Introduction: The Living Architecture of Memory
Human memory is not a passive repository of information. It is an active, dynamic process involving structural changes in neural tissue. Each time we learn, experience, or believe something, the brain physically reorganizes itself through a process known as synaptic plasticity, the strengthening or weakening of connections between neurons.
This process is not metaphorical. It is biological.