MEMORY

 

I stow newspaper clippings of interest in books. Today I found one such clipping, an interview (El Cultural, 7/24/2008) with Dr. Francisco Mora, Neuroscientist at the Universidad Complutense, where he says: "Comer menos, hacer ejercicio y memorizar todos los días retrasa el envejecimiento del cerebro." I hold that we are memory and without it we are nothing. Further, we are always memorizing, at any age, new names, new street names, appointments, things we must do or accomplish in a day... but the real memoiristic exercise, the ultimate way of getting our brain to work to acquire facts and remember them is language learning. Professor Mora does not mention this. He doesn´t mention how we can put our neurons to work acquiring vocabulary, sounds, or grammar... which is the ultimate test for memory. If you wish to improve your memory, study a new language.