Memory is best in the morning, why?

Since I was a child, I was told by my teacher that I was the best and most focused when I got up in the morning, so the endorsement was very efficient. However, this kind of "everyone is the same" discourse is not scientific! I wake up in the morning from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.

The teacher reluctantly accepted the privilege of dozing off in my morning self-study under my powerful sleep offensive. For me personally, the evening self-study time (8 p.m. to 11 p.m.) is the most energetic and concentrated time, and the efficiency of both memorizing words and doing questions is far greater than during the day. When I got to university, it even extended to 1 o'clock.

I also tried to forcibly change my biological clock, but the result of the last 2 months was that the time of sleepiness at night was advanced from 1 o'clock to 12 o'clock. Since then, I have not deliberately changed my routine. I believe that when you are in good health, how you work and rest depends entirely on your personal situation.

Therefore, the "memory efficiency of the morning" varies completely from person to person. Probably because of the phrase "go to bed early and get up early to be healthy", everyone thinks that studying in the morning is also efficient. <>

Yes, in addition, it is easier to retain the content of the memory before going to bed at night. This is due to the psychology of proactive inhibition and reverse inhibition. There are two types of inhibition in amnesia: proactive inhibition and backward inhibition.

The material that is learned first interferes with the recognition and recall of the material that is learned later is called proactive inhibition. In one experiment, participants were asked to memorize four meaningless syllables and then analyzed for forgetting each word list. The result is the least forgotten in the first list (i.e., the first list), followed by the second, the second list, the second list, and the fourth list.

This result suggests that proactive inhibition is one of the important reasons for forgetting in the recognition of meaningless materials. As for the recognition of meaningful material, it may be less affected by proactive inhibition because it is more connected and more prone to differentiation. The material that was learned later interferes with the retention and recall of the material that was learned earlier is called backshot inhibition.

The results show that when the materials are exactly the same, the subsequent learning is review, and there will be no inversion inhibition. When the learning material gradually changes from the exact same to completely different, the effect of backshot inhibition also changes gradually

At the beginning, the inhibition effect gradually increased, and when the similarity of the materials decreased to a certain extent, the inhibition effect was the largest. After that, the inhibition effect gradually decreased, and when the two materials were completely different, the inhibition effect was minimal, and the study showed that when learning two different materials, if the materials learned later were different in difficulty, the effect of inversion inhibition would be different. In one experiment, when the subjects memorized words and then solved arithmetic problems, the results reduced the reproduction of the words that followed16, while the reproduction of the same words was reduced only when the easier task (oral multiplication) was performed.4

About 30% of people have the best memory in the morning. These people are ready to absorb new knowledge as soon as they wake up.

About 30% of people have the best memory in the afternoon. They are often not really alive until after lunch.

About 30% of people have the best memory at night. They are the so-called "night owls".

About 10% of people don't have any time bias. They seem to be able to concentrate on learning whenever they need to.

The best time to remember each day varies from person to person and should not be generalized. If you think you have a better memory in the afternoon or evening, you don't have to wake up early to memorize words or formulas when you don't get enough rest. However, maintaining a normal and regular routine can ensure the stability of hormones in the body, so that the efficiency of learning will not be affected by the violent fluctuations of hormones in the body.

Rumor Shatterer's advice is that no matter what time you wake up, it's still important to have a good time after waking up, after all, that's when your brain does everything it can to keep you awake and ready for the day ahead.

When is the best memory for people, everyone's situation is different, some differences, to figure out their best time to study, people's brain has a certain activity pattern in a day: generally speaking, at 8 o'clock in the morning, the brain has a rigorous, careful thinking ability; 3 p.m. is the quickest thinker; Memory is strongest at 8 p.m.; Reasoning skills gradually weaken over the course of 12 hours during the day. According to these rules, when people get up in the morning, their imagination is richer, so they seize the time to capture some inspiration, do some ideological work, read Chinese and memorize English words part-time, and participate in some physical exercise because of the fresh air in the morning; Do some rigorous work in the morning, listen carefully in class, and take good class notes; In addition to listening to classes in the afternoon, you should quickly and accurately do the day's written homework; In the evening, I will strengthen my memory and comprehension, and prepare for the next day's homework.

In the middle of the day and evening, arrange some laborious tasks, such as reading the newspaper, collecting writing materials, walking and resting.

Or to put it another way: a student's day can be roughly divided into four stages, each with a different purpose and different learning effects.

Stage 1: After waking up in the morning. Early morning is the best time of the day for a person's memory, and this time can be arranged to memorize English words and texts or Chinese texts.

The sound of reading aloud in the morning will clear your mind and make you better start your day's study and work. You don't have to race against time to complete your homework between classes, go out for a walk, chat with your classmates, relax, and concentrate in the next class.

Stage 2: After lunch. Many schools have a longer break time, and schools in other places have a longer break, considering the afternoon nap of teachers and students, although the Shanghai area is short, it can also be about an hour.

After a short break after eating, you can do your homework, and the homework assigned by the teacher in the morning can be done at noon, and students who are fast can generally complete one or two homework.

Stage 3: After school in the afternoon to before dinner. When you get home, you should hurry up and do your homework, at most eat a snack to satisfy your hunger (some parents get off work late, and nutrition must be guaranteed during the child's growth and development stage) and then start doing homework.

There are more than two hours after coming home from school and dinner, plus noon, which is generally enough to complete the day's homework.

Before going to bed, this is another time when people have a better memory of the day, at this time, they can recite the English words and texts they have learned that day, and repeat the memory. After falling asleep, put on headphones and listen to an English tape to practice listening, preferably with English essays and short stories. Why did you choose to listen to it at night after going to bed?

The day is the time when people are most active, there are many and miscellaneous sounds, at this time, it is easy to be distracted by listening to English, and it is difficult to concentrate, and at night after falling asleep, the surroundings are very quiet, close your eyes, lie quietly and listen for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, the effect is more ideal.