Most people don’t think about the process of remembering until they experience memory loss.
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Deficits in short-term memory, long-term memory and memory retrieval are common with neurological conditions such as traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, autism, cognitive impairment and learning disabilities. No two brains are exactly alike, so medical studies have had inconsistent results in identifying memory patterns across these conditions.
My son often doesn’t remember things that happened 5 minutes ago – but I know the memory is in there. He just needs help pulling it out. Sometimes complex ideas, such as a subtle social interaction, or abstract ideas, such as a scientific theory, never get deposited in his memory. He does pretty well with visual memory, but he is unable to organize it, so he can’t always connect what he saw with specific events, places or people.
It’s my job to get into his head and show him how to sort it all out. These are the 11 most useful methods that I’ve found to teach my son how to remember.
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Versus critical thinking. Rote methods are routinely used when fast memorization is required, such as learning one's lines in a play or memorizing a telephone number. Rote learning is widely used in the mastery of foundational knowledge.Examples of school topics where rote learning is frequently used include phonics in reading, the periodic table in chemistry, multiplication tables in.
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1. Use Procedural Memory Whenever Possible
The Mayo Clinic developed a memory training program, HABIT, for individuals with cognitive impairment or memory loss. The cornerstone of this program is the use of procedural memory, a type of long-term memory that helps people remember how to do each step of a process. In most cases, procedural memory is more reliable than short-term memory or memories that include emotions.
In my home, I’ve applied this idea to teach my son everything from long division and reading comprehension to self-care and chores. Instead of introducing these tasks as concepts, I model each step and increase his level of participation until he is able to do it independently. For example, he usually does not understand what he is reading, but he knows that he can take a list of questions and go back through a text to find the answers. And even though he may not understand a math problem at first, he can line up the numbers and work out the correct answer, then go back to the problem and apply that answer to the original question.
2. Make A Schedule
A schedule with words, symbols or pictures is an easy way to develop procedural memory for people of all ages. Daily habits and journaling can compensate for many types of memory impairments.
3. Take Lots of Photos
Episodic memory is the feeling of remembering one’s own personal history. This type of memory is what allows us to learn from past experience and predict future events. Most people do not fully develop this sense of “autobiography” until they are at least 5 years old – but with a neurological condition, it takes much longer.
In my family, we take lots and lots of photos to document our autobiographies. I photograph special occasions and everyday occurrences, happy and sad. We name people, places, dates and events. We turn them into greeting cards and theme-based scrapbooks such as “Nature Walks 2010-2012” and “Roller Coasters 2005-2011.” Now my son takes an artistic interest in his summer photo project every year.
4. Exercise
Vigorous daily exercise has been demonstrated repeatedly in published medical studies to improve cognitive function and memory. At home we try to incorporate cross-lateral exercise into our daily routine to strengthen connections between the left and right sides of the brain. Get moving this year with yoga, Brain Gym, Bal-A-Vis-X, swimming and bicycling.
5. Relax
The stress hormone cortisol is known to alter memories, so relaxation is an important component to maintaining the integrity of memory. Meditation and regular spiritual practice are excellent tools for supporting cognitive wellness.
6. Vitamins
Some types of nutrient deficiencies may contribute to memory loss. After consulting with my son’s pediatrician, I started giving him vitamin B-12 and the antioxidant coenzyme Q10. Other nutritional supplements that may help with memory are omega-3 fatty acids and the antioxidants beta-carotene, vitamin C and vitamin E.
7. Sensory Input
To understand what my son is thinking, I often follow his eyes so that I can see what he is seeing, and I watch his face for reactions to changes in the sensory environment. I’ve noticed that sounds, smells, colors and textures can cause a forgotten memory to rise to the surface of his mind. A few bars of a song will remind of the last time he heard that music, and a smell will remind him of another place with that same smell. He is much more likely to remember something that has a sensory experience attached to it.
8. Creative Output
Having a creative outlet such as writing, photography, painting, sculpture, woodworking or jewelry making tends to reduce stress and increase memory retrieval. Make creativity part of the daily routine!
9. Repetition Through Stories
For many years, I’ve used stories to help my son process events. I ask him to state both facts and emotions in each story – he has a thick collection of stories now. He reads and re-reads, writes and re-writes each one.
During his winter break, he kept a list of what we did on each day of vacation, then he wrote about one event for his English class at school: “We went to the science museum. We saw a dinosaur and a woolly mammoth. I liked the ball exhibit best. Mom got a headache from the noise and lights, so we went home.”
10. Keep It Simple
Simple concepts are much easier to remember than complex concepts. Break down large ideas into smaller chunks that can be stored in long-term memory.
11. Make It A Game
Memory games and exercises have been around for centuries because they really work. A game does not have to be complicated or expensive – it can be as simple as a treasure hunt or I Spy at home – but it should always be fun!
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In this post I’ll teach you how to have perfect recall of lists of items. Lengthis not much of an issue, it can be your shopping list if 10 items or it can be alist with 50, 100 or even 1000. And in a forthcoming post I’ll show you how youhow to apply this technique to learning new languages. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
The technique we’ll be learning is called the memory palace, and is alsoknown as the method of loci (for the latin word locus meaning place) andalso the mind palace. A useful tool in everyone’s toolbox.
The memory palace
The memory palace technique began in the 5th century B.C., when Simonides ofCeos, poet, was attending an unfortunate banquet in Thessalia. While he was awayto talk with a courier who asked for him outside, the hall’s ceiling crumbled,killing everyone. There was no way to recognise the corpses… Until Simonidesrealised that it was no problem to recall who was where, without having done anyeffort.
Think about it: It is not hard to remember who sits beside the host, whereyour friends sit, who is beside them and so on. This dawned upon Simonides, andhe is credited as the “inventor” of the memory palace technique. Widely spreadthrough antiquity, there was not a lot of written accounts on it: it appears inthe anonymous Rhetorica adHerrenium and Cicero’sDe Oratore. It is not that strangethat there were no written accounts, it is like writing a book about how to putyour trousers on. Everybody knows how to do it.
The memory palace is well suited to how our brains have evolved. Back in ournomadic days we needed to know how to get somewhere (the lake, the plain) andremember what was there (fresh water, hunting). By taking advantage of this factwe can build an array of impressive memorisation techniques, to ordered orunordered lists.
Remembering lists may sound lame, who wants to memorise a list…? But lists arejust an ordered array of knowledge. What you study for a history exam is a listof ordered dates accompanied by facts and causes (sub-lists). When you learn anew recipe, it is a list. A telephone number is a list of numbers. A poem is alist of phrases.
Your first memory palace: building and filling
Let’s start by creating our first memory palace. It does not need to be apalace, in fact, it should not. Just think of your home, and as a sample I’llassume is really small: from the door you get to a small hall, connected to aliving room which leads to a kitchen, a WC and a bedroom with a balcony. This isa sample, to memorise correctly you have to visualise your home or any otherplace you may know well. You can of course use this mental image of animaginary house, but memorising may be harder, be warned.
Now consider the following shopping list: lettuce, bacon, onion rings, SD cardand oranges. We want to memorise it. I picked a short list to make the postshorter and make it fit in our small imaginary home: try your hand with a longerlist if you don’t believe we can do it with longer lists.
To remember the list, we have to place each item somewhere in our mind palace.This of course can mean one item per room or several items per room, each one ina special spot in the room. The simplest method is to put each item in its ownroom, when you are confident enough, create additional trapping space in eachroom. Thus, our small 5-room house could be easily a 5, 10 or 15 places memorypalace.
To place an item, we have to visualise it in the room, and to make sure weremember it it has to be an extremely odd image. It has to leave a clearimpression and to do so, it has to be surprising, bizarre or sexual, among otheroptions. If the image is dull, remembering it is close to impossible.
Begin with the list. When we enter the front door, we are greeted by Kermit thefrog, only that this special Kermit is made of lettuce, like a talking lettuce.Can you see it? Feel the freshness of Lettucit’s leaves? In the living room astampede of pigs followed by Kevin Bacon with a fork should be bizarre and clearenough! In the kitchen, Scarlett Johansson plays hoola-hop with an onion ring.You enter the bedroom, and to your surprise, the bed is a gigantic SD card: youcan hide the bed by pressing it in to be read. Finally, you open the balcony tofind that the sun is now a big, luminous orange. It starts to drip juice overthe desert in front of your window!
You should put all these images in a place you know like the palm of your hand:your home, the house you grew up, your office. This is important.
You may not believe it works at all, but you will be surprised. I wrote thefirst part of this post in the afternoon, and now more than 3 hours later Istill can see clearly all the images. Of course this is a short list… But itwould not matter: you could remember a list 5 times as long as easily as withthis one.
Finding an array of memory palaces
To remember a lot of things you need to have a lot of places to put all thesememories. You will need to find your own array of memory places. The first timeI considered this problem, I thought about creating imaginary palaces, linkedsomehow by corridors. The problem? Artificial palaces get blurry fairly quickly,and you tend to forget them. It is far, far better to use real places, or atleast places you can revisit in real life, like pictures from a book, levels ina computer game or buildings you can visit.
Then I started to think about houses and places I could use… And I found thatthere are plenty. I still remember school mates houses from 16 years ago, hotelsI’ve been, buildings I have visited. I am sure you will find a huge array ofplaces you can use. To begin with the technique, use known places, likeyour house or office and as you get more confident with the technique, startusing older places.
You can read more about this in Building Your Memory PalaceCollection.
Final words
You have to get the knack of the method. Get some degree of experience inconverting everyday objects (like lettuce) into long-lasting impressions (likeKermit the lettuce-head). This only comes with practice, like walking aroundyour images of memory palaces. Practice, practice, practice!
By the way, can you recall the shopping list above?
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In case you want to read more:
Purrfect Memory 1 03 – Memorization And Study Tools
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Joshua Foer)
- How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week: 52 Proven Ways to Enhance Your Memory Skills (Dominic O’Brian)
- Quantum Memory Power: Learn to Improve Your Memory with the World Memory Champion! (Dominic O’Brian)
- Maximize Your Memory (Jonathan Hancock)
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I have written another related post called Remembering Facts: Using MentalAssociativeChains,and also expanded the method to find memory palaces in Building Your MemoryPalaceCollection.You can also read a translation of this post in Spanish here: Aprende arecordarlo todo: el método del palacio de lamemoria.