Memory involves three stages: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Your brain encodes information when it perceives it and registers it. This information can then be stored for future retrieval. Memory failure occurs when any one of these three stages breaks down.
Memory itself has been divided into various kinds, including sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Sensory memory receives information from stimuli through the senses, such as smell, sight, and touch. Short-term memory, also called working memory, holds small amounts of information for brief periods. Thus, we can add up numbers in our head, remember a telephone number long enough to dial it, and remember the first half of a sentence while reading or listening to the second half. But as we all know, short-term memory has it limits.
If you want to store information indefinitely, it must go into your long-term memory. How can you put it there? The following principles will help. Please click the following link or copy and paste to read more.
http://www.healthmad.com/Mental-Health/Nine-Fundamental-Principles-on-How-You-Can-Improve-Your-Memory.582963
