We recall thousands of events and procedures every day, but what is memory?
In this comic explainer, The Florey Institute’s Dr Jee Hyun Kim explains how memory works, why we recall some things more easily than others and what we can do to improve our retention of those events and facts that we really want to hold onto.












Illustrations by Wes Mountain for The Conversation.
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Jee Hyun Kim receives funding from ARC and NHMRC.
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