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Minding your memory - Harvard Health
How To Handle Fading Memory
Certain facts or events simply fade from our minds, something known as transience. The brain cannot store all information infinitely.
The way to label the information as important, so that the brain keeps it for long, is to make it emotionally charged, making it feel important and worth hanging on to. It also helps to revisit the memory.
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Get your focus back
We all tend, to a different degree, to lose our focus once in a while. However, when this becomes a habit, we should contact a doctor, as it can occur due to serious underlying conditions, such as ...
Train your focus
In order to train your focus, check out the below useful tips:
- keep track of the moments when you tend to lose your attention so you can plan activities for those very moments that require less focus
- practice meditation so you can guide your mind back to the initial activity
- control the distractions around you, in order to be able to better concentrate
- work for shorter periods of time, while making sure you stay focus throughout those periods
Improve your focus
Staying focused is one of the key factors to having success in all the possible fields. Have a look at the below tips on how to improve your focus:
- use your brain in activities that lead to learning a new skill, while showing progress and encouragement
- check with your doctor as soon as you have any doubts on whether the medications you take can affect your focus
- keep track of your intake of sugar and coffee, as both can seriously decrease your power of focus
- stay social, as it brings you both more happiness and an increase in focus
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The Science of Memory
- Encoding - the stage when the brain consciously acknowledges information based on our senses. When we attach meaning or factual knowledge to any of this sensory input, that'...
Lifestyle Changes That Can Improve Memory
- Get a good night's sleep or take a power nap after learning something new, to help retain and retrieve memories better. Sleep deprivation and acquisition of too much information will not help you save those memories.
- Get moving, to improve the flow of oxygen-rich blood in your brain and to trigger neuron growth and new connections in the brain - critical for memory.
- Improve your diet. Fats from food can build up the brain, resulting to poor blood flow.
Mnemonics
Any system or device designed to aid memory:
- patterns of letters or words (common mnemonics)
- ideas (memory palace)
- associations (chunking)
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Memorizing new material
When we try to memorize new information, we assume that the more work we put in, the better we will do.
But, our memory for new information is the most fragile just after it has first been en...
Take some downtime
Aiming for minimal interference - to do literally nothing - is the best way to consolidate the facts and remember it better.
Research found that short periods of rest increased the ability to recall information up to 30 % in healthy individuals. For people with neurological injury, such as a stroke, the ability to recall after some rest, places them almost within the range of healthy people.
We remember better after rest
When memories are initially encoded, they pass through a period of consolidation that cements them in long-term storage.
It was once thought to happen mostly during sleep; studies have found that it is not limited to sleep, because it happens during periods of wakeful rest, too.