Decay

Defeating the Decay of Memories : Memory Exercises

Article by Rafiu Idris

The decay of memory capacity is such that an hour after trying to memorise,approximately fifty percent of the facts may have been forgotten. A day laternearly everything related to the memory exercise may have evaporated. A graphdrawn to show the way in which people forget would show a sudden, dramaticdownward curve starting about five minutes after the attempted memorisation.This assumes that full attention was given to the spoken or written materials, withunderstanding; obviously if little attention… Continue reading