7 Tips To Develop A Sharp Memory
By Raman Kuppuswamy | Submitted On September 10, 2015
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Expert Author Raman Kuppuswamy
If you want to succeed in life, you must have a sharp memory but this depends mainly on your brain 's health. Earlier, there was a notion that those who were old might not be able to boost their brain power. But researchers have disproved this theory. It has been proved that human brain, regardless of the age of the person, has a tremendous capacity to adapt, change and improve. Researchers have named this phenomenon as "neuroplasticity." But you have to make use of the right kind of stimulation for creating fresh neural pathways in your brain and for making modifications to the existing connections. The right types of stimulation will help your brain adapt as well as react in the ways you wish.
By using the concept of "neuroplasticity" and developing a good memory, you can not only improve your cognitive capabilities but can learn new things as well. Let us look at some of the tips that may help you.
1. Brain workouts
Biologists have found that before a person reaches adulthood, her brain will have developed
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A persons memory begins to deteriorate as early as their twenties and tends to pick up speed as they reach their fifties. Generally, older people have more difficulty learning new things, retrieving old information, and multitasking. To begin to understand what causes this weakening of the memory system, we must first understand how the human memory works. When the senses perceive something, several parts of the brain, including the hippocampus and frontal cortex, determine whether it will be encoded as a memory. Based on numerous factors, including how interested we are in it, if we are paying attention, and whether we are consciously trying to remember. Electric impulses in the brain carry the information to be stored in various sections. These impulses carry the information across the synapses between neurons from the release of neurotransmitters. If more cells send messages to one another, then the connections between the synapses become stronger. This explains how a repetition of an action allows us to remember it. One example is going over information multiple times while
Memory retrieval skills gradually deteriorate over a person’s lifespan. It becomes harder to remember events and recall what was learned. Forgetting something doesn’t mean the memory is gone, it’s just a retrieval failure. Inside Out displays what happens to long term memories when they are forgotten. We see that the glassy memory orbs darken and desaturate in color, and ‘mind workers’ regularly clean out the old memories. This is quite similar to pruning, as it shows how not all memories retain the same duration. There are ways, however, to improve retrieval. Professors McDermott and Roediger suggest, “Relating new information to what one already knows, forming mental images, and creating associations among information that needs to be remembered. (McDermott & Roediger,
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Working memory refers to one’s ability to complete immediate tasks through the use of short-term memory and precision to make actively conscious choices. This is especially important in one’s organizational ability, reasoning, and decision-making. Unfortunately, working memory is yet another function of your brain that only gets weaker as you age into your midlife years. If you’ve ever placed a soup can in the wrong cabinet drawer, or put on non-matching socks or shoes, then you know exactly what it feels like.
Memory is crucial to our lives, it allows us to function presently, moving toward the future. The capability of learning from our accumulated past experiences is the result of memory. Memories can be vivid and long-lasting, or short and unsteady. Memories may not always be ever-lasting, but the impact of them is. They allow us to form relationships throughout our life.
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I agree with the article “Can You Get Smarter?” and how it states that “you can’t yet exceed your innate intelligence. But that seems less important than the fact that there is much that you can do to reach your cognitive potential and to keep it.” and that there are things you can do to decrease shrinkage in the hippocampus. The article lists several things that people can do to keep their memory and reach their cognitive potential. The main thing people should do is to forget all the smart drugs and supplements. Another thing people can do is exercise. The last thing is to have a rich social network (Friedman).
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As people age over time, they have a way of changing both psychological and biological. These changes affect everyone in different ways and the changes that can take place over the years can vary from individual to individual. “For the human brain, there's no such thing as over the hill. Psychologists researching the normal changes of aging have found that although some aspects of memory and processing change as people get older, simple behavior changes can help people stay sharp for as long as possible. Although researchers are still piecing together what happens in a healthy aging brain, they can explain some typical changes” (Memory Changes in Older Adults, 2006).
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