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5 - Memory, Knowledge, and Building Expertise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2024

Debra S. Austin
Debra S. Austin
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University of Denver
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The thinking and emotional brains work together to help lawyers develop expertise in a process called memory consolidation. Information enters the thinking brain through the senses, such as the eyes and ears, and travels to the memory-processing hippocampus. Newer memories are remembered from the network of brain cells that loop between the thinking brain and the hippocampus in the emotional brain. Stable memory, a lawyer’s hard-earned expertise, is recalled from the connectome, which is the unique architecture of neurons in the lawyer’s thinking brain.

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thinking brainemotional brainexpertisememory consolidationhippocampusconnectome
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The Legal Brain
A Lawyer's Guide to Well-Being and Better Job Performance
 , pp. 65 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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