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Hello, welcome to the naked scientist.

This is the show that brings you the latest breakthroughs

in science, technology, medicine with me Chris Smith.

And this week we're going to take a closer look at the weird and wonderful ways in which our brains

work and specifically how we remember and sometimes forget things, including for some people, the way around their own homes. To begin though, what exactly is memory? Well, Catherine Love Day is a neuropsychologist

at the University of Westminster and the author of several books that explore the brain and human memory.

Catherine, what is memory? How do we define it?

So that's a really interesting question because a lot of people I think think of memory as the last time I rode a bike. I remember what happened or the first time I rode a bike so they can vividly picture what they were doing and re-experience it and that is a really important part of

memory but memory is a lot more than that so the knowledge of what a bicycle is

and how to spell it that that kind of knowledge is part of our memory system.

Knowing how to ride a bike is also a different part of our memory system and even being

able to kind of follow a set of directions and hold those in our head for a temporary period of time that is also of

a set of directions and hold those in our head for a temporary period of time that is also using yet a different part of our memory system and what people may be surprised about is that even planning a trip in the future or planning anything

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