They, too, are constantly reshaped by new experiences. Meaningfully challenging input, which can bring in positive anxiety, reshapes thinking to a higher level. The way in which anxiety and emotion interact is an important issue for further research. Anxiety may modulate memory via the limbic system. As we learn, the very chemistry of our anxiety may influence what we remember, and this certainly extends beyond musical memory.
Memory is crucial to the normal functioning of the mind and to the phenomenon of consciousness.
It is a major breakthrough, therefore, that scientists have begun to understand how biological and biochemical changes and mental processes can account for the way in which we record events as memories, and how these memories are associated with one another. Educators likewise can benefit from this research as we teach according to how memory retains intact meaning and, in the process, stimulates and gains deeper meaning. How We Remember. How Minds, Brains and Society Reconstruct the Past. The Mind, the Brain and the Past.