Memory

There are many different things that researchers have found which can help improve or stimulate your memory. In a recent study at the John Hopkins University, they found that caffeine not only can help boost your energy and help keep you up, but caffeine also can enhance your memory. The research shows that caffeine has a positive effect on our long-term memory, and it also shows that caffeine can help enhance your memory up to 24 hours after you learn it.

A test was done on people who do not normally consume very much caffeine. First these people were shown a series of pictures they had to remember. 5 minutes later, half of them were given a 200 mg tablet of caffeine and the rest of the people were left alone. The next day the experimenters were given another series of pictures, some the same and some different. The people who took the caffeine tablets were able to correctly identify the pictures while the people who did not not take any caffeine had a more difficult time correctly identifying the pictures.

Caffeine helps a person use deeper levels of memory called pattern separation. The caffeine that a lot of put intake focuses livens you up and keeps you awake, which in turn allows you to focus stronger and help you use a deeper part of your memory which will help your long-term memory stay more vivid and for more of an extended time period. The average person on average consumers 200 mg of caffeine each day, so our brains use this technique more often than you would think. Caffeine has a beneficial effect on your long-term memory.

http://hub.jhu.edu/2014/01/12/caffeine-enhances-memory/