ELI5: Where are our memories stored and how do we access them?

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Our brains are insanely complex. But if I were to say the words “Barack Obama”, chances are you were not thinking about him at the moment. But when you read those words, you were able to recall him to mind (what he looks like, what he sounds like, etc).

But where is that data stored? And how does our brain access it?

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  1. virgilreality Avatar

    >But if I were to say the words “Barack Obama”, chances are you were not thinking about him at the moment.

    I suspect that these days, people think about him a lot. Wistfully, to boot.