Improving your memory.
September 11th 2008 01:01
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FROM: The Science Museum.
Improving your memory
Practice can improve your memory for facts dramatically. Simple ways include associating a picture with a word, making up a story, or rhymes ('30 days hath September'). The key is to associate facts with meanings - a strategy used by professional memorisers, or mnemonists. Associations can sometimes lead to false memories - if you see a list of closely linked words (sugar, chocolate, cake), you might 'remember' a related word that was not in the list (sweet).
Ancient memory tricks
The ancient Greeks and Romans were very skilled at using memory. As very few of them could read or write, lawyers and politicians had to speak for hours without notes. The Roman lawyer Cicero recommended breaking a long text into bits. Then he would visualise a familiar place - a house, for example - and put different bits of the text in different rooms. To recall it again, he would just walk through the imaginary house, room by room.
Your brain
You couldn't work without your brain. It is responsible for everything you do - waking in the morning, remembering who you are and where you live and feelings of love, happiness or sadness.
Scientists can watch your brain working, using exciting new imaging techniques. Knowing how the brain works will help us understand how we think and what happens when the brain is damaged or affected by illness.
One of the first brain scanners ever made, dating from the 1970s.
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