Memory Tips
If you want to remember something, study it right before you go to sleep.
Sleep… plays an active role in consolidating memories. “Rather than being a passive state, it’s a dynamic neurobiological process,” said Dr. Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen, the lead researcher. “It turns out that the process of memory doesn’t end when we stop studying, but continues during sleep. That’s important to all of us.”
If you want to avoid the memory decline associated with old age, stop believing in that association.
“The implication is that some of the things we say about ourselves in conversation — joking about ’senior moments’ is a perfect example — these kinds of comments may in fact undermine our own memory at the time we’re saying them,” Dr. Mary Lee Hummert said. “And the fear is that it has a cumulative effect, that it becomes a negative feedback cycle.”