Short Term Memory : Memory Games: Do They Really Help you Enhance Your Memory
Article by Erik Skillern
Have you tried to say a phone number over and over again until you memorize it? Many people use this technique to retain information to their memories. However, we tend to forget the phone number after few hours or may be after one day.
This happens because you retain the phone number to the short memory rather than to the long term memory. The short term memory can be very useful for quickly remembering some information such as telephone numbers, but unfortunately it can store bits of information for very short period of time.
In order to remember things for a longer period, you must relate the new data with the data you already know. This help retaining data to your long-term memory and so store the information for longer intervals.
There are numerous techniques that are quite laborious to improve our memory. However, you can also have techniques that are both funny and beneficial. Here you can find several games such as puzzles that can practice your memory.
One way to recall information that you need to retain to your long-term memory is to create a story that associates the particular items or data you need to recall, making them easier to remember. The idea here is that it is easier to recall more data when a fact or data is associated with another idea.
While creating the story, you can also make a strong mental image of what is happening. This aids in associating the information to a picture and concretize it into your long-term memory.
Story-telling is fun while performing with a group. You can rehearse by laying 10 or more things on the floor and try to recall them. Each person in the group takes his or her to add to the story by adding another object.
After you finish adding all the objects in the story you can take them out of the room. After that check to see who can remember most objects. Finally, tell the story as a group by asking each member to tell his or her part. There is no doubt that the group will remember the story and hence all the objects associated.
Another mind-practicing game is the pexeso. This game is a matching pairs like tiles or cards from a group, when one of each group is not visible.
The game can be played with a set of tiles which has pairs of symbols or images. You can play the game using half a pack of cards, but ensure that you have pair of each card i. e 2 queens, 2 jacks, 2 aces . .. . etc.
You start the game by placing 12 matched pairs of cards face down. Then move the cards around to ensure that you don’t know which is which.
Turn one card one at a time and look at the number or the picture, and then turn it down again. You can repeat this process until you turn over a tile that matches a tile you turned earlier. Now, find the card’s pair by recalling from earlier where it is placed. When you located a pair, remove them from the set. You can also devise your own games but you should be sure that they are really mind-practicing games such as puzzles and solving problems.
Games like this will exercise your brain and your memory. Through these games, you can expect that your memory will be a lot sharper and also a lot more accurate.
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Have you tried to say a phone number over and over again until you memorize it? ? We all do this from time to time to store a phone number in our memory. However, we tend to forget the phone number after few hours or may be after one day.
This is because the phone number is not retained in our long term memory.
Palin seems to have a short term memory problem and needs to write even the most simple talking points on her hand, to answer simple softball questions by this interviewer. She gets stuck in an answer and resorts to looking at her left hand in this interviews. Pic of what is written on the hand at the end of the video.
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