The hippocampus is sort of like a relay station where new memories come in -- short-term working memory -- and then can be sent elsewhere for longer-term storage and retrieval. Those hippocampal connections increased with the kids math performance. The stronger the connections, the greater each individuals ability to retrieve facts from memory, said Dr. Vinod Menon, a psychiatry professor at Stanford and the studys senior author. But thats not the whole story ... If your brain doesnt have to work as hard on simple math, it has more working memory free to process the teachers brand-new lesson on more complex math.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:35:00 +0000
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