What is encoding and decoding?

Konstantin Reels on Instagram: "1.When your father tells the same story for the eleventh time, your instinct is to check for decline. A neurologist at Johns Hopkins explained that repetitive storytelling in healthy aging is a Relational Encoding Loop. The brain selects significant narratives and replays them near attachment figures. Your parent is not forgetting. Their brain uses the story as a neurochemical handshake. ⠀ 2.Functional MRI shows activation not in the hippocampus but in the insular