https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szqPAPKE5tQ
The more often that you perform something or that you recite something, the more likely you are to remember it in the future.
So Jim McGaugh and Larry Cahill were certainly not the first to demonstrate or to conceive of the idea that emotionally laden experiences are more easily remembered than other experiences.
But one group of subjects was asked to read the paragraph and then to place their arm into very, very cold water. In fact, it was ice water. We know that placing one's arm into ice water, especially if it's up to the shoulder or near to it, evokes the release of adrenaline in the body. It's not an enormous release, but it's a significant increase. And yes, they measured adrenaline release.
In some cases they are also measured for things like cortisol, etc. And what they found is that if one evokes the release of adrenaline through this arm into ice water approach, the information that they read previously, just a few minutes before, was remembered, it was retained as well as emotionally intense information.
So what this means is that if you are currently using caffeine or other compounds, and we'll talk about what those are and safety issues and so forth in a moment. If you're using those compounds in order to enhance learning and memory by taking them before or during a learning episode, well then I encourage you to try and take them either late in the learning episode or immediately after the learning episode.
Brief naps of about 20 up to 90 minutes in some period of time after an attempt to learn can enhance the rate of learning and memory.
The improvements in cardiovascular function are indirectly impacting the ability of the dentate gyrus to create these new neurons.
it's very clear that getting anywhere from 180, or I should say a minimum of 180 to 200 minutes of so called zone two cardiovascular exercise, so this is cardiovascular exercise that can be performed at a pretty steady state which would allow you to just barely hold a conversation.
If it's going to give you a big spike in adrenaline, it's going to take some serious effort, then logically speaking you would want to place that after a learning about in order to increase learning and memory. However, if you're using the exercise in order to enhance blood flow and to enhance osteocalcin release. In efforts to augment the function of your hippocampus,I think it stands to reason that doing that exercise sometime within the hour to three hours preceding an attempt to learn makes a lot of sense.
It means that if you really want to remember something or somebody, take a photo of that thing or person. Pay attention while you take the photo. But it doesn't really matter if you look at the photo again.
9a. You didn't even need a camera to see this effect. If subjects looked at something and took a mental photograph of that thing, it enhanced their visual memory of that thing significantly more than had they not taken a mental picture.
If you think about meditation, meditation involves focusing on your breath and constantly focusing back on your breath and trying to avoid the distraction of things you're thinking or things that you're hearing.
I’m going to do those meditation sessions either early in the day, such as immediately after waking, or close to it. So I might get my sunshine first. I'm, as you all know, very big on getting sunlight in the eyes early in the day. As much as one can and as early as one can. Once the sun is out. But certainly doing it early in the day and not past 5:00 P.M. or so in order to make sure that I don't inhibit sleep.