How Does Memory Work? - Softpedia

How Does Memory Work? - Softpedia: "The Princeton's researchers have studied how does the brain function while we recall certain images.
They have discovered that when we remember something we �travel back in time� to the moment and into context when we have formed that memory. In other words, memory isn't like a file cabinet where we store our memories. The way memory functions can be described in the following way: When we are in a certain situation, certain things attract our attention and generate emotions, thoughts etc. When we are recalling something we revisit in our imagination that certain situation and the brain generates the same emotions, thoughts etc. once again (or maybe not exactly the same emotions and thoughts but some which resemble them fairly closely).

The study has been coordinated by Kenneth Norman, an assistant psychology professor and by Sean Polyn, who earned his Ph.D in psychology from Princeton in 2005 and is a now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. They collaborated with Jonathan Cohen, director of Princeton's Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, and Vaidehi Natu, a researcher in Norman's lab."