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If a person loses his memory then how does he remember his language?

Memory is a mental faculty, a distinct aspect of the mind. It is a recording mechanism that records all that falls upon it through any of the five senses A person may lose it, but his memory does not lose him because the memory is his own being. Therefore, a person who has lost his memory in his lifetime, owing to a disorder in the brain, has memory just the same. For example, we all have memory for music. We can be listening to a song on the radio and have a very distinct feeling associated with that music. The brain processes music and puts that information in one part of the brain. We also have memories for taste and smell. We know the taste of chocolate. We know the smell of burning rubber. We have memories for the things we feel (physical). We can remember the difference between the feel of silk and the feel of sand paper. Each type of memory has a different site in the brain. Two of the more important types of memory are vision and hearing (in this case, words). Visual things are the things we see, such as a familiar place or where we’ve left our car. We also have memory for language, including things that we've heard or read (things we've read we translate into language). Verbal information is stored in the left hemisphere with visual information stored in the right hemisphere of the brain.


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