Question: How does our brain store our memories?

Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 14 Mar 2014:

Long term memories are stored in different places to short term memories in different bits at the front of our heads. These are connected by neurons to stimulus receptors to trigger memories by noises, smells or key words. Whenever you say certain things, my father-in-law remembers a story and tells it. We hear some stories over and over because they have common triggers and others we hear rarely or only once. Every time you review a memory you recode it, so you make a new memory. For this reason we don’t believe some of the commonly told stories are that trye any more… My father-in-law likes to embellish!