(Ep. 10) MOVE IT FROM SHORT TERM TO LONG TERM MEMORY

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As a trained Neuro-Physiotherapist, I can tell you a lot about how the human brain works.

The brain has centres for different functions, including memory. There is a centre for short term memory and another for long term memory.

As the name implies, information stored in the long term memory lasts longer(for years, or even a life time) while information in the short term memory lasts for a few seconds or minutes or hours. There is also an intermediate memory center, where the information can stay for a couple of days.


You need to remember information

Most information we receive, however, must first be stored as short term before being moved to the intermediate and long term memory centres. If you fail to move the information from short term to long term, you will forget it or lose the information. This is not good for you as a student.

As a student, you really need information stored in your long term memory, especially because you must be able to recall during exams.


How to Move It

The problem now is how to move the information from short term to long term memory. Which transport service can carry these loads of information to the long term memory centre? Uber or Bolt can't ply that route. The Nigerian Keke or korope can't do the job.

So, neuroscientists have carried out a lot of research in this area to discover how information can be taken to and stored in the long term memory centre.


Our Neuroscientists found a way.

Their most important discovery is summarized in one simple word:

R-E-P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N

If you must be able to recall what you are currently reading or learning in class, you must REPEAT it. Read the chapter again, some days after you have read it. Read it again. And again. And again.


Task your brain

Solve more questions on that calculative course. Solve MORE. And MORE. Close your books, try to remember what you read. Ask yourself questions about what you have read and try to answer. Even outside the school environment, try to recollect. Task your brain. If you are not recollecting perfectly, go and read it again. And again.


This is the secret to being able to recall or to remember.


"Of these things put them in remembrance...; 2 Timothy  2:14a_"


Now that you are a student, always move it from short term to long term memory


✌️ 💕 


Dr Tochukwu Onu, PT

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