Coordinating our senses

The cerebral cortex is the part of our brain most concerned with intelligence, memory, language and consciousness.
A variety of methods have been used by scientists to map the regions of the cortex (including studies of patients with brain damage, studies in which different parts of the brain are stimulated electrically and, more recently, MRI brain scans).
Memory is the storage and retrieval of information.
Verbal memory can be divided into short-term memory and long-term memory.
Humans are more likely to remember information if they can see a pattern in it (or make a pattern), if there is repetition of the information, especially over an extended period of time, or if there is a strong stimulus associated with it, including colour, light, smell, sound.
Scientists have produced models for memory but so far none of these has been able to provide an complete explanation.