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Found yet another interesting article that I aint 2 sure where to post ... hopefully my choice was okay -
How do you make learning stick? Most of us remember pulling caffeine-fueled, all-night study sessions. But this tactic limits efficiency and will certainly not lead to extraordinary powers of recall.
When learning new information, your neurons have a limit; in a fixed period of time they can grow only a certain number of new connections, or synapses, to encode new memories. Accordingly, if you cram for that exam, you will quickly reach a ceiling on new information that your brain can retain because you will have exhausted the ability of your neurons to synthesize the proteins necessary to grow or strengthen synapses.
More details here -
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/articles/201811/7-extraordinary-feats-your-brain-can-perform
All the best!
Found yet another interesting article that I aint 2 sure where to post ... hopefully my choice was okay -
How do you make learning stick? Most of us remember pulling caffeine-fueled, all-night study sessions. But this tactic limits efficiency and will certainly not lead to extraordinary powers of recall.
When learning new information, your neurons have a limit; in a fixed period of time they can grow only a certain number of new connections, or synapses, to encode new memories. Accordingly, if you cram for that exam, you will quickly reach a ceiling on new information that your brain can retain because you will have exhausted the ability of your neurons to synthesize the proteins necessary to grow or strengthen synapses.
More details here -
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/articles/201811/7-extraordinary-feats-your-brain-can-perform
All the best!