Which sense (of the five) is the quickest path from stimulus to memory? Which is second fastest? Third?
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Smell is the strongest.  Then taste.  Then hearing.  Then touch.  Then sight.\n\nFunny huh, the opposite order to how important they are in our daily lives!
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One of the differences is in how much pre-frontal lobe cortex we have. The pre-frontal lobes have to do with "connecting the dots"...logical analysis, association...it allows us to visualize the future, make rationale judgments and plan. For this reason hey call it the "executive" part of the brain. In humans, 33% of the cortex, the thinking part of the brain, is frontal. In chimpanzees, it's only about 10%. That's a huge difference, signifying that humans have a whole lot more of the kind of brain function that produces higher level intelligence.
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Sense of humar - or that part of the brain
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4thefan.\n\nShort is good.  To build up recognition and memory recall among your clientele along the way.   Shorter and simpler is better.
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Movement\nRespiration\nSensitivity- i.e. faculties of detection\nGrowth\nReproduction\nExcretion\nNutrition- i.e. eating\n\nYou can remember it with the mnemonic MRS GREN, an apocopated Mrs Green I guess.
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Memory is linked to emotional/personal value (think about your clearest memories...usually there's intense sensory or emotional stuff going along with it). Depending on what you want the student to remember, bringing in music, dance, games such as hand clapping patterns, etc. all can help tremendously. Repetition is a big key, too, for fact recall, so drill, drill, drill!
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pen and paper - mostly they write it down. \n\nif they don't I'd guess it's called short term memory or working memory (biologically it involves an increase in the efficiency with which nerve impulses pass across synapses. It does not require any protein synthesis or remodeling of the synapse. )
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Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.\n"Chinese proverb"\n\nThis is a great summary of auditory, visual and kinesthetic learning.
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I really want to answer with "I don't remember" but I figured that though slightly funny it wouldn't be too nice.  I did find several sites with tests, try this one:\nhttp://quiz.ivillage.com/health/tests/shorttermmemory.htm
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1. Verbal comprehension--the ability to define and understand words\n2. Word fluency--the ability to produce words rapidly \n3. Number--the ability to solve math problems . \n4. Spatial--the ability to visualize relationships. \n5. Memory--the ability to memorize and recall \n6. Perception--the ability to see differences and similarities among objects \n7. Reasoning--the ability to find rules
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UCI researchers prove a single memory is processed in three separate parts of the brain\n\nFinding important for search to understand memory disorders\n\nIrvine, Calif., February 2, 2006\n\nUCI researchers have found that a single brief memory is actually processed differently in separate areas of the brain – an idea that until now scientists have only suspected to be true. The finding will influence how researchers examine the brain and could have implications for the treatment of memory disorders caused by disease or injury.\n\nThe results were published this week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nIn a study using rats, researchers Emily L. Malin and James L. McGaugh of UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory demonstrate that while one part of the brain, the hippocampus, is involved in processing memory for context, the anterior cingulate cortex, a part of the cerebral cortex, is responsible for retaining memories involving unpleasant stimuli. A third area, the amygdala, located in the temporal lobe, consolidates memories more broadly and influences the storage of both contextual and unpleasant information.
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forebrain\nmidbrain\nhindbrain
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General answer -- the way that works best for you to remember the key parts.\n\nReally, the "best way" is different based upon individual learning styles and previous knowledge.\n\nSome common techniques -- read it thoroughly. Summary the main points in your own words, in addition to any quotes you think are important. Really seek to understand the content.\n\nWriting it down longhand (as opposed to typing it) helps if you learn kinesthetically. \n\nReading it outloud to yourself, or reading the summaries, helps if you are an auditory learning.\n\nThe bottom line is that you need to keep your notes short enough that you can retain them in memory, without missing essential concepts.
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though i am offering nothing more than a personal opinion (worth about as much as any other layperson's)i'm going to row against the stream here and say that the rest of the brain is the part capable of things we learn to forget. i have seen young children just "feel" things that are beyond the grasp of older humans. maybe at one point in the past we all used instinct as we now use our senses. the structures are still there, and occasionally they still kick in, but mostly, we learn to rationalize things and think them through so we stop using that part. perhaps we were once able to sense that an earthquake was coming, or see and process two whole sets of visual information, or any number of other lost skills. perhaps in time the brain will evolve new uses for those areas, or even just use them as extra storage.\n\nor perhaps the brain needs the extra space. maybe it's a filler, so the useful parts can be in certain places. maybe padding, so the crucial parts are harder to damage. maybe it's just dissipation space, to keep the electic activity from being too concentrated and shorting our brain. i'm not an expert, but those are some ideas that come to mind.
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It would be the hippocampus or frontal lobe, which controls memory.  The mechanism of learned memory is thought to be directly behind the forehead.
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Memory is something that has to be trained. The more time you spend working on learning things the better you will learn them.\n\nOther than that, don't cram, study consistently throughout the semester and study in small increments of like 1/2 an hour to an hour. Then take a break before coming back to it.
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CHICAGO A recent study shows that caffeine exerts a positive effect on short-term memory and reaction times. \n\nFor the first time, researchers have demonstrated that caffeine modulates short-term working memory. The study was presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). \n\n\n"We were able to show that caffeine modulates a higher brain function through its effects on distinct areas of the brain," said the paper's lead author, Florian Koppelstatter, M.D., Ph.D., radiology fellow at Medical University Innsbruck in Austria. \n\n\nDr. Koppelstatter and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine the effects of caffeine consumption on brain activation in a network of modules subserving short-term memory of 15 healthy adult volunteers during a working memory task. Working memory represents the kind of brain activity required to remember things for a short period of time, according to Dr. Koppelstatter, "like looking up a telephone number in the phone book and storing the number until you've dialed it." \n\n\nThe volunteers were shown a sequence of simple images (the letters A, B, C or D) and then asked if an image was the same as the one shown two images earlier. The volunteers were instructed to respond as quickly as possible using the right index finger for "yes" and the left index finger for "no." The task was performed after a 12-hour period of no caffeine and a four-hour period of no nicotine exposure. Administration of 100 milligrams (mg) of caffeine (approximately the amount in two cups of coffee) as well as placebo was randomized across volunteers so that each of them underwent a caffeine and placebo scan. \n\n\nIn the "caffeine condition," the volunteers demonstrated a tendency towards improved short-term memory skills and reaction times during the task. The fMRI showed increased activity in brain regions located in the frontal lobe, where a part of the working memory network is located, and the anterior cingulum, the part of the brain that controls attention. In the "placebo condition," the volunteers showed no change in activation patterns from the earlier test. \n\n\n"What is exciting is that by means of fMRI we are able to see that caffeine exerts increases in neuronal activity in distinct parts of the brain going along with changes in behavior," Dr. Koppelstatter said. \n\n\nWhile these results are promising, Dr. Koppelstatter does not recommend rushing out to the break room for another cup of coffee just yet. "We can demonstrate that caffeine exerts influence on the function of the normal brain, but we still need to learn more about caffeine's effect on mental resources." \n\n\nCaffeine is currently the most widely used stimulant in the world, and is mainly found in coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate. Daily caffeine consumption per person averages 76 mg (equivalent to 1 1/2 cups of coffee) worldwide and 238 mg (more than 4 1/2 cups of coffee) in the United States. \n\n\nDr. Koppelstatter's co-authors are Thorsten D. Poeppel, M.D., PhD., Christian M. Siedentopf, Ilka Haala, Anja Ischebeck, Ph.D., Felix M. Mottaghy, M.D., Ph.D., Paul Rhomberg, M.D., Ph.D., Michael Verius, Ph.D., Stefan M. Golaszewski, M.D., Ph.D., Christian Kolbitsch, M.D., Ph.D., Stephan R. Felber, M.D., Ph.D., and Bernd J. Krause, M.D., Ph.D. \n\n\nRSNA is an association of more than 38,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and related scientists committed to promoting excellence in radiology through education and by fostering research, with the ultimate goal of improving patient care. The Society is based in Oak Brook, Ill. \n\n\nAT A GLANCE \n\n- Caffeine exerts a positive effect on short-term memory and reaction times. \n\n- fMRI showed that 100 milligrams of caffeine (about two cups of coffee) increased activity in regions of the brain associated with