Try to write the password that you have to use often by pen or pencil at the same speed as you type on the computer keyboard. You will not find yourself comfortable enough to write the password. It is also widespread to write the password wrong in this scenario. What is the truth that lies behind this fact? Does your brain instinctively prevent you from writing the password anywhere for security reasons? In fact, it is terrific for you to consider if the brain says “No” to writing the password anywhere else because the password is critical personal information that should be kept in the brain only.
Some information does not have to be memorized or recalled; it remains in the memory effortlessly and can be recalled unconsciously. This information is all about “Skills” and certain “Tasks.” They are called “Procedural long-term memories” of the brain. The “Motor cortex” is one of the brain regions that store procedural long-term memories. The Motor cortex consists of three main parts – “Primary motor cortex,” “Premotor cortex,” and “Supplementary motor area” (SMA).
Every time you decide to type a password on a computer keyboard; all the steps of the whole process of typing the complete password, i.e., looking at the keys on the keyboard, finding the required keys from them, and pressing them with fingers one by one are planned by SMA of your brain. When the planning is done, SMA lets that plan know some of the nerve cells or neurons of the Premotor cortex. These neurons of the Premotor cortex lead the primary motor cortex according to that plan. Each time you type a specific password, the brain’s primary motor cortex receives instructions from specific neurons of the Premotor cortex in a specific sequence and operates your hands and fingers according to those instructions. Therefore; to remember a password easily for a long time and to use that password quickly in daily life; the Primary motor cortex tries to keep two factors familiar to itself regarding the password – the neurons which send instructions from the Premotor cortex to the primary motor cortex, and the exact sequence in which the neurons send instructions. Suppose you hold a pen or pencil in hand and try to write the password using it instead of typing it on computer-keyboard, the plan made in SMA changes. As a result, the Primary motor cortex starts to receive instructions from some unfamiliar neurons of the Premotor cortex in some unknown sequence. This phenomenon in your brain causes you to feel uncomfortable.
