Notes

*Hippocampus - a medial temporal lobe structure with crucial roles in memory formation, particularly new long-term declarative memories.
*entorhinal - cortex plays a major role in memory formation.
*neocortex - the more recently evolved portions of the cortex of the brain that are involved with higher mental functions and composed of areas that integrate incoming information from different sensory organs.
* 1,000,000 MEGABYTES - you have 1 million megabytes or 1,000 gigabytes
* Forgetting is a FRIEND to learning - it helps forgetting memories and your remember to strengthen your synapses
*synapses - a junction that mediates information transfer from one neuron to the next or from a neuron to an effector cell
* helps to take a break when studying - when you take a break while studying it is 20-30% more efficient to take a break then to study for 1 hour+
* better to change enviroment of where study - studies have shown people remember better when changing the enviroment of where you study by 40%
* better to pretest - it is better to pretest before learning the information that way it helps you remember the information
* 3,000,000 hours - our brain can remember 3,000,000 million hours of TV shows!