"Architects make miniature house models to help clients imagine their future homes. Similarly, psychologists create memory models to help us think about how our brain forms and retrieves memories. Information-processing models are analogies that compare human memory to a computer's operations. Thus, to remember any event, we must: a) get information into our brain, a process called encoding; b) retain that information, a process called storage; and c) later get the information back out, a process called retrieval. Like all analogies, computer models have their limits. Our memories are less literal and more fragile than a computer's. Moreover, most computers process information sequentially, even while alternating between tasks. Our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously (some of them unconsciously) by means of parallel processing." -- Page 314
This image serves as a visual aid to what the brain does during information processing. Humans see, hear, and experience hundreds of thousands of things a day. The brain sees and identifies each and every one of those things, determining the level of importance of that concept based on how long the concept was exposed to the person, the intensity of which it was exposed at, and if it makes reappearances often. This picture shows hundreds of objects, color-coded and segmented to symbolize the way the brain sees things and memorizes them, filing them away in specific locations until retrieval is necessary and called upon by the person.
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