how to increase your memory power?

Question

u can learne things faster and remember them

Answer 1

depends on what youre trying to remember and for how long you want to remember it.
If youre trying to remember school stuff, for a long period of time, you should try to refresh your memory 2 times for the first week, then go over it shortly every two weeks after that, like for ten minutes- it does not take very long.

A lot of people's brains work on repetition, so keep saying that to yourself.

You should also get a lot of sleep after youve just been cramming or trying to memorize stuff. While sleeping the brain is more active than when you are awake, and it stores short-term memory to long-term memory. Its like the brain's time to file things.

Eat some fish too, its brain food!

Answer 2

PRACTICE. Genuinely focus on retaining information. Don't let things bounce off of you. A good tip for lectures is to mentally repeat every word the speaker says as they say it. This takes some practice, but it makes your notes more concise, and you really will remember a lot more. To remember the written word, just focus on extracting the main idea from every sentence. If you don't find it the first time, re-read the sentence. Good Luck

Answer 3

Study and repetition...it takes roughly 18 seconds to convert something from short term to long term memory...if that helps, but if you don't remind yourself once in awhile you won't remember as quickly.

Answer 4

Eating eggs can help increase the protiens in your brain so if you want to study or before an exam eat anything that contains lots of protiens

Answer 5

read a book or play puzzle,chess or take Ginkgo Biloba extract

Answer 6

Memory Techniques

Using Mind Tools

Mnemonics

'Mnemonic' is another word for memory tool. Mnemonics are methods for remembering information that is otherwise quite difficult to recall. A very simple example is the '30 days hath September' rhyme. The basic principle of mnemonics is to use as many of the best functions of your brain as possible to store information.

Our brains evolved to code and interpret complex stimuli such as images, colors, structures, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, positions, emotions and language. We use these to make sophisticated models of the world we live in. Our memories store all of these very effectively. Unfortunately information we have to remember is almost always presented in only one way - as words printed on a page. While language is one of the most important aspects of human evolution, it is only one of the many skills and resources available to our minds.

Using Your Whole Mind To Remember

By coding language and numbers in striking images, you can reliably code both information and the structure of information. You can then easily recall these later.

You can do the following things to make your mnemonics more memorable:

* Use positive, pleasant images. Your brain often blocks out unpleasant ones

* Use vivid, colorful, sense-laden images - these are easier to remember than drab ones

* Use all your senses to code information or dress up an image. Remember that your mnemonic can contain sounds, smells, tastes, touch, movements and feelings as well as pictures.
Give your image three dimensions, movement and space to make it more vivid. You can use movement either to maintain the flow of association, or to help you to remember actions.
Exaggerate the size of important parts of the image

* Use humor! Funny or peculiar things are easier to remember than normal ones.

* Similarly rude rhymes are very difficult to forget!

* Symbols (red traffic lights, pointing fingers, road signs, etc.) can code quite complex messages quickly and effectively


Designing Mnemonics: Imagination, Association and Location
The three fundamental principles underlying the use of mnemonics are imagination, association and location. Working together, you can use these principles to generate powerful mnemonic systems.

Imagination: is what you use to create and strengthen the associations needed to create effective mnemonics. Your imagination is what you use to create mnemonics that are potent for you. The more strongly you imagine and visualize a situation, the more effectively it will stick in your mind for later recall. The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as violent, vivid, or sensual as you like, as long as it helps you to remember.

Association: this is the method by which you link a thing to be remembered to a way of remembering it. You can create associations by:

* placing things on top of each other

* crashing things together

* merging images together

* wrapping them around each other

* rotating them around each other or having them dancing together

* linking them using the same color, smell, shape, or feeling

* As an example, you might link the number 1 with a goldfish by visualizing a 1-shaped spear being used to spear it.

Location: gives you two things: a coherent context into which you can place information so that it hangs together, and a way of separating one mnemonic from another. By setting one mnemonic in a particular town, I can separate it from a similar mnemonic set in a city. For example, by setting one in the town of Horsham and another similar mnemonic with images of Manhattan, we can separate them with no danger of confusion. You can build the flavors and atmosphere of these places into your mnemonics to strengthen the feeling of location.


Source:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTIM_00.htm

Answer 7

please give the ten points to the person who wrote a book to answer this question. please. i also would like to donate my 2 points to him.

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