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Neuroeducation has provided us with new approaches towards teaching-learning processes to leave traditional techniques behind and bet for a real change in education. Regarding to this, understanding how our brain works provides us with the tools for obtaining the desired effecs for a more effective teaching practice which will ensure more motivating experiences and permanent knowledge for our students. Throughout the present article, we will point out varied approaches and theories about memory processes and we will deepen into concepts such as short-term memory, long-term memory and working memory, as well as their importance in learning. Moreover, in the following articulated text, a synthesis of Ebbinghaus’ contribution about how to maintain knowledge in time. To conclude, we will mention some of the main substantiative instructions to obtain our students’ lifelong knowledge and how to implement the most efficient practice in class by means of basing our programming on our students’ previous knowledge and awakening their curiosity and attention carefully planning motivating dynamics, which will be suggested in the following lines.

Keywords: neuroeducation, neurodidactics, memory, learning, teaching.