Dr. Wendy Suzuki
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But you could come up with, you know, fun things like that, and it does help you remember.
Right.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
There are key things that make memories stick.
One is the obvious one, repetition.
You know, Jessica, Jessica, Jessica.
With the bunny ears or not, you will remember that better.
Next is association.
So the hippocampus associates things with each other.
The episode that I just talked about, the memory palace.
And so, for example, you tend to remember...
the friends of friends that you met because you can remember the friend and that they were their friend.
So that's what the hippocampus does well.
So if you find some relationship of something new you want to learn to something you already know, that will help you remember it.
repetition, association, novelty.
Our brains are focused on bringing up novel things because it's danger.
It could be danger.
So we naturally focus on things that are novel and they're easier to remember.