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What is short-term memory?
Memory that lasts for a few seconds to a couple of minutes
What is the process called when two neurons communicate repeatedly, increasing the efficiency of communication between them?
Long term potentiation
What is the role of the hippocampus in memory formation?
Transfers information from short-term memory to long-term memory
This process allows for the efficiency of communication between neurons to increase, it is called ______ term potentiation
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Memories are transferred from short-term to long-term memory through areas such as the ______.
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When we experience something, the information first lands in ______ term memory before being transferred to long-term memory.
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