Memory Genes

In psychology, genetic memory could also be a memory present at birth that exists within the absence of sensory experience, and is incorporated into the genome over long spans of your time .It is supported the thought that common experiences of a species become incorporated into its ordering , not by a Lamarckian process that encodes specific memories but by a way vaguer tendency to encode a readiness to reply in certain ways to certain stimuli. We tend to consider ourselves as being born with a powerful and complex piece of organic machinery (“hardware”) we call the brain, alongside a huge but blank hard drive (memory). But the prodigious savant apparently comes already programmed with a vast amount of innate skill -and knowledge in his or her area of expertise–factory-installed “software” one might say–which accounts for the extraordinary abilities over which the savant innately shows mastery in the face of often massive cognitive and other learning handicaps. Neuroscientific research on mice suggests that some experiences can influence subsequent generations. In a 2013 study, mice trained to fear a specific smell passed on their trained aversion to their descendants, which were then extremely sensitive and fearful of the same smell, even though they had never encountered it, nor been trained to fear it. Changes in brain structure were also found. The researchers concluded that "the experiences of a parent, even before conceiving, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access.phpsubsequent generations".

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