CNN: How memories form, fade, and persist over time
How memories form, fade, and persist over time
A friend sent me a link from cnn.com that explains memory function. Check it out!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/28/memory.research/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Not sure how this information can help us as we strive to memorize scripture, but I’ll take the opportunity to remind you all to try to review your verses as often as possible! In your daily email, click “Member Home Page”. From their, there’s a link to review your learned verses. Visit it! The only way we can remember verses is to review and reinforce what we’ve memorized.
Have any memory resources you’d like to share?
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I was surprised that running and cocaine have opposite effects on memory when they both increase dopamine levels in the brain. So I turned to Wikipedia, and I guess the increased oxygen outweighs the extra dopamine. It’s also interesting that poor attention and poor memory are apparently opposite problems (low or high dopamine, respectively).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine#Cognition_and_frontal_cortex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory#Improving_memory
But Wikipedia doesn’t make any connection between exercise and dopamine, so I tried Google. I confirmed my hunch and found several other interesting things about dopamine (and serotonin). The first result gives instructions for increasing the commonly deficient one for each gender.
http://www.google.com/search?q=exercise+dopamine
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Oh, never mind. Wikipedia does make that connection:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_exercise#Exercise_benefits
So exercise should help both attention by increasing dopamine and memory by increasing oxygen.