ALPHABETICAL BRAIN VOCABULARY Flash Card #55 - Details WHAT IS YOUR "SEMANTIC MEMORY" AND WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? Your SEMANTIC MEMORY is the part of your brain that stores "factual memories" about the nature of reality! It is distributed throughout your brain in NEURAL PATHWAYS, which typically consist of thousands of NEURONS connected by hundreds of thousands of SYNAPSES in long NERVE TRACTS. Your SEMANTIC MEMORY resources make possible your "self-awareness" or "sense of self" as well as your inferences about what is the "truth" about the "fabric of the cosmos" and about the "reality" of science, nature, evolution, and the linguistic context of metaphors --- in short, the meaning of life! The "hook" that triggers your memory for "facts," is located in the "language module" in your left TEMPORAL LOBE near your left ear. Return to #55: SEMANTIC MEMORY or BRAIN FACTS MATRIX