US lead researcher Dr Michael Yassa, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, said: "We've always known that caffeine has cognitive-enhancing effects, but its particular effects on strengthening memories and making them resistant to forgetting has never been examined in detail in humans.
During both periods the brain undergoes physical and chemical changes whose interaction may be what strengthens memory traces.
The Posit Science software, sold commercially under the names Brain Fitness Program and InSight, is supposed to strengthen memory, attention, language skills and visual-spatial abilities in aging adults.
The idea behind many popular video and online "brain-training" games is that practicing tasks that strengthen memory, attention and other mental processes will make you a smarter person.
Noradrenaline (NA) strengthens memory (re consolidation.
At any age, however, it is possible to sharpen and strengthen memory (Kesler et al., 2011).
(Bybee 2006: 10) Bybee contends that high-frequency tokens are more accessible and resistant to change because "repetition strengthens memory representations".
Because sleep strengthens memory, Ditye and colleagues decided to test whether visual adaptation also improves after some shuteye. .
The act of retrieval itself is thought to strengthen memory (Karpicke, Blunt, et al., 2014; Roediger & Karpicke, 2006; Smith, Roediger, & Karpicke, 2013).
Testing was shown to strengthen memory as early as 100 years ago (Gates, 1917), and there has been a surge of research in the last decade on the mnemonic benefits of testing, or retrieval practice.
