#How to improve MEMORY

How to improve MEMORY?

Page contains -Defintion➡️Encode➡️ Store➡️ Improve memory.

Definition:- Memory is the faculty of the brain by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed.

Encode:-   

         Memory encode the information. We can convert large information in the form of small code. eg ROYGBIV or Roy G. Biv is an initialism for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. It is very difficult to remember all the colors of the rainbow in the sequence but with the help of coding, we can remember it easily.
     In daily life, with help of this technique, we can remember the glossary list, homework, and more complicated things. There are a different techniques we can use for improving our memory such as converting information in picture form, movie form, poem etc (i.e. #mnemonics).

Store:-

        The brain probably stores around 10-100TB of data. But have you ever think in which form the memory is stored in the brain? If No! Then I will tell you😄.

        Memory is stored as a function of neural connections. Memory is a relatively stable form of neural states. That is a neuron. That facilitate communication with other neurons. These neurons form a network. Stable neuronal networks represent memories. Connections - dendrites and axons are parts of the neuron. which link to other neurons. These parts form a network. This network can be specialized to represent a certain form of memory. For example, the memory of how the person drives a car. These connections can also represent the meta process such as how we think about solving the rubrics cube. It can represent an algorithm.

     I think you understand, how the information is stored?

IMPROVE MEMORY:-

The information is stored in the brain so you have to:-

• Take a healthy diet.

• Do regular exercise.

➡️Do physical exercise. eg. Aerobic exercise etc.

Some aerobic exercise:-

1. Play tennis,
2. Go dancing,
3. Swim or Do water aerobic exercise,
4. Ride your bicycle outside,
5. Ride your stationary bicycle indoors etc

➡️Dr. Morley recommends the following exercise:-

1. Do the math in your head,
2. Take a cooking class,
3. Learn a foreign language,
4. Create word pictures,
5. Draw a map from memory,
6. Challenge your taste buds,
7. Refine your hand-eye abilities,
8. Learn a new sport, etc.

• Eat food that improves memory and focus.

For example:-

1. Fatty fish,
2. Egg,
3. Coconut oil,
4. Soy, Berries,
5. Nut & Seed etc.

•  Use mnemonics:-

    Try to connect information to picture. Convert the information into the picture so it will help to memorize all the data with proper sequence. This method is largely used to store large data with high accuracy. We have studied the mnemonics of the rainbow. If you have to remember a list of glossary then simply convert all the list items into an understandable picture. When you memorize the picture you will remember whole glossary list items.
             Like the picture, we can make the code words which will help to remember a number of items easily. We can also make a poem for long-term memory.

• Revision:-

             Revision plays important role in study. I have experienced, when I do revision it increases my confidence and the topic is properly retrieved.
         To improve the memory you have to do revision. The revision should be properly planned. Planned revision helps to save wastage of time due unnecessary revision.

   The above figure shows EBBINGHAUS forgetting curve as per the curve when you read some information, immediately you remember above 95% information, but after 20 minutes you remember only 58% of information, after 1 hour you remember 44% of information, after 9 hours you remember 36%, after 31 days you remember only 20% of the information.

        It shows when you read some information then it needs revision which can help you to retain the maximum information. This is very important for students. In the school or college, one semester is of six months. Teacher teaches you the first chapter at the beginning of the semester and after the six month you have to solve the questions related to the topic. As per the curve after six month, the information you remember will be less than 20%. To remember maximum information then you required to do revision of the chapter on the perfect time period. That will help you to avoid donkey work. Donkey work means studying the first chapter on the first month of the semester and and again studying the stream chapter on the end of the semester with same efforts. 

       You are regular revision with proper time period is going to help you by saving efforts and this information will be converted into long term memory.

             Improving memory is not a big task. It requires patience & consistent work. This is reason some student do 1 hour study & obtain good marks. They improve their memory by proper revision. So do revision to improve memory. Improve memory with proper revision.

            We will see how to do revision on the right time with the right time peiod gap in the future posts.