Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

It is likely that many reading this blog might be saying, “Why a blog on the brain?” The answer is that the brain is affected—long-term—by the experiences it encounters pre-natally and in the early years of one’s life. In particular, the brain grows more in the first year of life than at any other point [...]

Welcome to Part Two of our discussion about implicit memories. In Part One we learned that an implicit memory forms early in life prior to the individual having language. Implicit memory systems store emotions, sensory experiences (sounds, smells, etc,) and expectations and assumptions about relationships based on prior experiences. They cannot be recalled but they [...]

“On our trip to Florida, we went whale watching.”
“In first grade, I’ll never forget Jean Marie winning the spelling bee.”
These are declarative or explicit memories—events we can recall. We have a conscious ability to retrieve the memory and state the facts and events.

Nondeclarative or implicit memory operates very differently. Implicit memory systems  store emotions, sensory [...]