Mental Manipulation for Long Term Memory Once the information gets to the prefrontal cortex students must do something with it to build permanent memories. Students can write summaries of new information in their own words. To make these even more personally meaningful, the summaries can be in forms that suit their learning style preferences including graphic organizers, sketches, and diagrams.
Practice Makes Permanent By using multiple sensory lessons to review material, different neural networks store the knowledge in multiple brain regions. Their brains will build multiple pathways leading to the stored memory, which makes retrieval more efficient. When a memory has been recalled often, their repeated activation strengthens its neuronal circuits, like exercising a muscle.