5 Ways Exercise Affects Your Memory

4.Exercise boosts “interference memory”

The good news is that exercise can help improve several types of memory. This is vital because diagnoses of dementia are on the rise worldwide. It’s not only because of an aging population; it’s also because of a less active population. We already talked about the hippocampus and long-term memory, but exercise also helps with “interference memory” which makes it possible to link old memories to new ones. For example, interference memory allows you to be able to recognize a person you haven’t seen in years, or distinguish between two similar car models.

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