Dr. Dave Vago

That's very unique to say something like riding a bike and learning how to ride a bike because that's also a memory, but it's a skill based memory that we refer to as a procedural or skill based type of memory. And in fact, even automatized thoughts can also engage the same circuitry as riding a bike or skill based procedural types of memory.

That's very unique to say something like riding a bike and learning how to ride a bike because that's also a memory, but it's a skill based memory that we refer to as a procedural or skill based type of memory. And in fact, even automatized thoughts can also engage the same circuitry as riding a bike or skill based procedural types of memory.

It's but those are fundamentally different types of memories that are created. And we just have to recognize that they're different and involve different circuitry. There's basal ganglia, for example, that are really important for skill based learning. And you don't have to explicitly recall them. They don't use a language to know how to ride a bike when you get on it. Your body knows. Right.

It's but those are fundamentally different types of memories that are created. And we just have to recognize that they're different and involve different circuitry. There's basal ganglia, for example, that are really important for skill based learning. And you don't have to explicitly recall them. They don't use a language to know how to ride a bike when you get on it. Your body knows. Right.

It's but those are fundamentally different types of memories that are created. And we just have to recognize that they're different and involve different circuitry. There's basal ganglia, for example, that are really important for skill based learning. And you don't have to explicitly recall them. They don't use a language to know how to ride a bike when you get on it. Your body knows. Right.

So it's very much more an embodied kind of form of memory. The more explicit forms of memory that are declarative in nature, that rote memorization that we're used to is reading facts and being able to regurgitate those are also much more complicated for humans because it just takes much more effort to encode and consolidate and then be able to retrieve them later.

So it's very much more an embodied kind of form of memory. The more explicit forms of memory that are declarative in nature, that rote memorization that we're used to is reading facts and being able to regurgitate those are also much more complicated for humans because it just takes much more effort to encode and consolidate and then be able to retrieve them later.

So it's very much more an embodied kind of form of memory. The more explicit forms of memory that are declarative in nature, that rote memorization that we're used to is reading facts and being able to regurgitate those are also much more complicated for humans because it just takes much more effort to encode and consolidate and then be able to retrieve them later.

There's a whole biochemical cascade of events that happens during an event of memory over experience in order for it to be consolidated into short-term or working memory and then later stored into long-term storage where you can recall it easily. There's also habits of thinking that repeat themselves over time and that become much more difficult to change if they happen over repeatedly.

There's a whole biochemical cascade of events that happens during an event of memory over experience in order for it to be consolidated into short-term or working memory and then later stored into long-term storage where you can recall it easily. There's also habits of thinking that repeat themselves over time and that become much more difficult to change if they happen over repeatedly.

There's a whole biochemical cascade of events that happens during an event of memory over experience in order for it to be consolidated into short-term or working memory and then later stored into long-term storage where you can recall it easily. There's also habits of thinking that repeat themselves over time and that become much more difficult to change if they happen over repeatedly.

The metaphor for this actually was created by Ralph Gerard in the 1940s and Donald Hebb when they talked about long-term potentiation and how cellular processes work to create a memory trace. And the metaphor is the sandcastle. It's a really nice way to think about the experience of water trickling down over a sandcastle. And at first it creates grooves in that sandcastle.

The metaphor for this actually was created by Ralph Gerard in the 1940s and Donald Hebb when they talked about long-term potentiation and how cellular processes work to create a memory trace. And the metaphor is the sandcastle. It's a really nice way to think about the experience of water trickling down over a sandcastle. And at first it creates grooves in that sandcastle.

The metaphor for this actually was created by Ralph Gerard in the 1940s and Donald Hebb when they talked about long-term potentiation and how cellular processes work to create a memory trace. And the metaphor is the sandcastle. It's a really nice way to think about the experience of water trickling down over a sandcastle. And at first it creates grooves in that sandcastle.

And then over time, the water, as it repeats the same patterns, it will make deeper and deeper grooves. Another theoretical model that just came out more recently by Robin Carhart-Harris, he talks about canalization. And this sort of station is the deepening of the canals of those memories.

And then over time, the water, as it repeats the same patterns, it will make deeper and deeper grooves. Another theoretical model that just came out more recently by Robin Carhart-Harris, he talks about canalization. And this sort of station is the deepening of the canals of those memories.

And then over time, the water, as it repeats the same patterns, it will make deeper and deeper grooves. Another theoretical model that just came out more recently by Robin Carhart-Harris, he talks about canalization. And this sort of station is the deepening of the canals of those memories.

And so if it's traumatic, it's going to be even deeper groove and much harder to change if it has that intense emotion or a level of arousal tied to it. That's what happens with memories that are especially destructive mental habits that related to trauma.

And so if it's traumatic, it's going to be even deeper groove and much harder to change if it has that intense emotion or a level of arousal tied to it. That's what happens with memories that are especially destructive mental habits that related to trauma.

And so if it's traumatic, it's going to be even deeper groove and much harder to change if it has that intense emotion or a level of arousal tied to it. That's what happens with memories that are especially destructive mental habits that related to trauma.