While enjoying her meal, Maggie is encoding the memory due to automatic processing.
Stimuli from the outside world becomes electrical signals that move through the cerebral cortex to the hippocampus. This information is processed and sent back to the cerebral cortex to form new connections for LTM storage.
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If Maggie's brain was an attic, the spaghetti meal has now been stored up there.
1 week later...
Oh yes! I love their spaghetti, I had it last week! It was a great date for Tom and I. You should definitely try it!
I was planning on going to that new italian restaurant, have you been?