Enhance memory

There are various ways to enhance memory.

Memory is the reflection of past experiences in the human brain. It includes four basic processes: memory, retention, reproduction and recall. Its forms include image memory, concept memory, logical memory, emotional memory, sports memory and so on.

The enemy of memory is forgetting. The essence of improving memory is to avoid and overcome forgetting as much as possible. As long as you exercise consciously and master the laws and methods of memory in learning activities, you can improve and improve your memory.

The following are 10 ways to enhance memory:

1. Focus

As long as you concentrate on your memory and eliminate distractions and external interference, the cerebral cortex will leave a deep memory trace, which is not easy to forget. If you are distracted and concentrate on doing two things, the memory efficiency will be greatly reduced.

2. Strong interest

If you are not interested in learning materials and knowledge objects, it will be difficult to remember even if you spend more time.

Understanding memory

Understanding is the basis of memory. Only what is understood can be remembered for a long time. It's not easy to learn by rote. For important learning content, if we can combine understanding with reciting, the memory effect will be better.

Too much study

That is to say, on the basis of remembering the learning materials, remember them several times more to achieve the degree of memorizing and remembering.

Review in time

The speed of forgetting is fast first and then slow. While the iron is hot, reviewing and consolidating what you have just learned is an effective means to strengthen memory traces and prevent forgetting.

6. Always remember

When learning, constantly trying to recall can correct the mistakes in memory, make up for the omissions, and remember the difficulties in learning content more firmly. When you are free, you can often recall the objects you have remembered in the past, and you can also avoid forgetting them.

7. Audio-visual combination

We can use the functions of language and visual and auditory organs at the same time to strengthen memory and improve memory efficiency. Much better than a single silent reading.

8. Multiple means

Flexible use of classified memory, chart memory, shortening memory, compiling outline, taking notes, cards and other memory methods can enhance memory.

9. Best time

Generally speaking, 9~ 1 1 in the morning, 3~4 in the afternoon and 7~ 10 in the evening are the best memory time. Use the above-mentioned hard-to-remember learning materials, and the effect is better.

10. Use your brain scientifically

On the basis of nourishing and maintaining the brain, active rest and physical exercise, using the brain scientifically, preventing excessive fatigue and maintaining a positive and optimistic mood can greatly improve the working efficiency of the brain. This is the key to improving memory.

Do you want to know your memory?

1. Three groups of numbers are listed below, each group is 12. This is a test of your memory. You can choose any number, read it in 1 minute (a number is read every 5 seconds on average), and then write it out (it can be reversed). Record the number of numbers you remember correctly. According to your memory, you can evaluate your mechanical memory.

73、4964、83、4 1、27、62、29、38、93、74、97

57、29、32、47、94、86、 14、67、75、28、79、24

36、45、73、29、87、28、43、62、75、59、93、67

2. The numbers listed below are 100. Please find out 15 consecutive numbers in these numbers, such as 2- 16 or 6 1-75. Record the time it takes you to find these figures. According to this time, you can know how good your memory is by paying attention.

12 33 40 97 94 57 22 19 49 60

27 98 79 8 70 13 6 1 6 80 99

5 4 1 95 14 76 8 1 59 48 93 28

20 96 34 62 50 3 68 16 78 39

86 7 42 1 1 82 85 38 87 24 47

63 32 77 5 1 7 1 2 1 52 4 9 69

35 58 18 43 26 75 30 67 46 88

17 64 53 1 72 15 54 10 37 23

83 73 84 90 44 89 66 97 74 92

25 36 55 65 3 1 0 45 29 56 2

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Mechanical memory test results: continuously and correctly write down the number 12, with excellent memory; Write down 8-9 numbers, excellent; Remember 4-7 numbers, generally; Less than 4, poor memory.

Concentrated memory test scores: 30-40 seconds to complete, excellent; 40-90 seconds to complete, generally; 2-3 minutes to complete, poor.

Nine bad habits can dull the brain.

1. Long-term satiety: After eating too much, the substance called "fibroblast growth factor" in the brain will increase significantly. It can increase capillary endothelial cells and fat, promote atherosclerosis, and lead to premature aging and mental retardation of the brain.

2, despise breakfast: not eating breakfast will make people's blood sugar lower than the normal supply, and it will be harmful to the brain over time.

3. Vegetarian breakfast: According to relevant data, the best thinking of children who eat high-protein breakfast in class is generally relatively prolonged, while the mood and energy of vegetarian children decline relatively quickly.

4, excessive sweets: sweets reduce appetite, reduce the intake of high protein and multivitamins, leading to functional malnutrition, affecting brain development.

5, lack of sleep: the main way for the brain to eliminate fatigue is sleep. Long-term lack of sleep or poor quality will only accelerate the decline of brain cells, and smart people will become confused.

6. Long-term smoking: Long-term smoking causes brain tissue to shrink to varying degrees, which is prone to Alzheimer's disease. Because long-term smoking can cause cerebral arteriosclerosis, lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain, degeneration of nerve cells, and then brain atrophy.

7. Less words: There is a lobe in the brain that is responsible for language. Talking often will also promote the development of the brain and play a role in exercising the brain. Usually say something rich in content, philosophical or logical. When people sleep with their heads covered, with the increase of carbon dioxide concentration in the quilt, the oxygen concentration decreases continuously, and long-term inhalation of wet and dirty gas is extremely harmful to the brain.

8. Unwilling to use your brain: Thinking is the best way to exercise your brain. Only by using more brains and thinking hard can people become smarter.

9. Use your brain when you are sick: When you are unwell or sick, insisting on studying or working is not only inefficient, but also easy to cause brain damage.

What if you have a bad memory?

1. Stop before going out, let yourself take a deep breath, give yourself some time to think, think about where to go today, what to do, and what the purpose is.

When you do anything, force yourself to concentrate, even if you don't like it. If you often forget to turn off the stove, run into the kitchen and turn off all the appliances slowly. Every time you see an appliance, tell yourself, "The oven has been turned off and the toaster has been unplugged." In this way, when you drive out, you will clearly know that those things have been turned off.

3. Write down things that you forget easily with a pen. If you forget important things easily, make a list before you leave. Check everything carefully and read it out loud. Check the calendar and make sure that everything you need is written down and ready.

4. Do it as soon as you think of it. If you need to borrow that book from the library, get it as soon as you think about it. If necessary, you can even put the book near the front door, for example, leaning against the door vertically.

In addition, poor memory can also be used to make the brain enter the best memory state. Studies have shown that when people's brain waves are in alpha brain waves, their attention is the most concentrated and their memory is the best. The American Institute has developed the most advanced one in the world by studying various factors affecting human brain waves. It can effectively regulate the state of human brain waves by using various combinations of sound waves and light waves, and has a very good effect in improving poor memory. At present, it has been used by many people abroad, and users can obviously improve their memory.

Ten simple memory gymnastics

Small, director of the Memory Clinic and Aging Center at UCLA, said in Let the Brain Young that it is always easier to stop the brain from accelerating aging than to find a way to repair damaged brain cells, and it is never too late or too early to fight against brain aging.

Try the following 10 kinds of brain gymnastics that can simply live, cultivate a healthy lifestyle and make your brain more brilliant!

1. Be creative

A 2 1 year study by Einstein Medical College in new york City found that the elderly who play games (such as chess and bridge) at least once a week are 50% less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease than those who don't play games.

2. Develop the ability to respond quickly

Stark, a professor of neurology at George Washington University, suggested playing a paper ball game during work breaks: you can train your quick response ability by holding the paper ball in a circle about six feet from the trash can.

3. Create new life experiences

A fixed lifestyle will stifle brain power. Katz, a neurobiologist at Duke University, encourages people to break away from convention and create new experiences in "Make Your Brain Renew". For example, choose a brand-new route to work and school, and what sounds, smells and scenery to search for on the new road; Eat in different restaurants every day, taste new flavors and diversify the sensory experience. '

4. Experience the fun of self-help tour

The significance of traveling is to broaden your horizons and feel the stimulation of the new environment. Therefore, when traveling abroad, you should avoid joining large tour groups or city tour groups that are fluent in Chinese. Try to choose free travel or self-help travel, and it is best to rent a car or take public transportation. Go to the local market, spend more time in the seasoning or vanilla area, smell the smell you haven't touched, chat with the local people, keep your brain in the best condition and face new problems at any time. Unexpected challenges will give brain nerve cells a chance to develop new connections.

Listen to music and relax.

It is said that listening to Mozart's music can improve the sense of space and promote the development of brain logic. However, Xu Qiping, a professional sound therapist with AMTA license from American Music Therapy Association, said that the so-called "Mozart effect" was the result of media out of context and market hype. The scholar who presided over the study of Mozart effect later said that the research sample was too small and the research time was too short to prove that Mozart music had long-term benefits for brain development. But music still has a positive effect on the brain.

Eating the right foods

Foods rich in Omega3-3 fatty acids, such as avocado, rapeseed oil, flaxseed oil, olive oil, green leafy vegetables, salmon, tuna and trout, help brain cells to remain soft and elastic, and reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and strokes. Natural antioxidants contained in fruits and vegetables can protect brain cells from free radicals and enhance memory, such as plums, raisins, blueberries, strawberries, spinach, plums, broccoli and oranges. Learn the traditional culture of China, learn all kinds of practical learning tools and skills, and improve yourself in all directions!

7. Reading is a whole brain activity.

When reading, the visual cortex is driven, the hand has to turn over the book, the eyes have to move, the words in the book are converted into sounds, and the sounds are stored in the forebrain and become meaningful, so reading can enhance intelligence. Every word you read will stimulate related words, so it can also enhance creativity and imagination.

8. Activate the complete sensory experience

The steps to observe your baby's understanding of new things must be to touch them, then smell them and bite them. Experts suggest that a new neural connection diagram can be created by activating multiple senses to do the same thing, adding common senses such as smell and touch, and avoiding the expected pattern of the brain. For example, when you go home, close your eyes and look for the light switch. Remember where the slippers are, where the desks and chairs are, and where the room is.

9. Exercise makes the brain young

Exercise stimulates the release of endorphins (a natural antidepressant hormone) and relieves stress; Regular work such as playing ball or doing housework can inhibit the unprovoked emission of the amygdala in charge of emotions and prevent bad emotions from causing trouble. Aerobic exercise will promote the body's metabolism and bring oxygen to the head. Kekongbi, a brain neuroscientist at the University of Illinois, suggested that walking fast for 15 minutes every day can keep a good physical condition and slow down the brain nerve cell loss.

10. Leave blank thinking

Mental gymnastics will not make the brain tired. Stanford University found that long-term exposure of experimental animals to stress hormones can shrink the memory and learning center of hippocampus.

Solomon, a professor of psychology at Williams College in Massachusetts, said that stress can make you unable to concentrate and your brain's memory ability will be reduced. Experts suggest that no matter how busy you are at work, it is good to remember to set aside half an hour to an hour every day to clear your mind and meditate.

Three advantages of writing articles with fixed pile method

Compared with the traditional rote learning method, this method (digital pile, position pile or other piles) has obvious memory advantages, mainly in three aspects: memory speed, review times and firmness:

First, memory is faster:

By transforming words into vivid images and words by rote into vivid imagination, the speed of memory is greatly improved.

Generally speaking, the memory speed of the fixed pile method will be several times or even dozens of times faster than that of the rote memorization method. Just like memorizing an article, rote memorization takes far more time than stake fixing.

Rote memorization requires reading an article many times and reading it skillfully, and then you can start to try not to recite it. Using the fixed pile method to remember, even if the article has not been read several times and the content has not been understood, it does not hinder the rapid word-by-word writing.

Second, the number of reviews is less, and the methods are more flexible:

Many people think that fast memory is only a short-term memory, which can be remembered quickly and forgotten quickly. This is a completely wrong idea.

On the contrary, rote memorization is the real short-term memory. Remember slowly and forget quickly.

In fact, Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve is only suitable for rote memorization, and it needs to be repeated many times according to this curve to ensure the firmness of memory.

The forgetting speed of fixed pile method is much slower than that of rote memorization. It is also the material of rote memorization, which needs to be repeated many times in a short time before it can be transformed into long-term memory; However, the number of repetitions and repetition time required by the fixed pile method is far less than that by rote memorization.

When reviewing, we can easily recall the content of each sentence through the pile of numbers, so that even if we publish a book, we can always recall it in our minds, which increases our familiarity and proficiency and is more conducive to memorizing articles. At the same time, it is also very flexible in the use of time, so you can review anytime and anywhere without going back to your desk.

Traditional rote learning method, without books, it is difficult to recall the whole picture of the article. Once the memory is stuck, you can't recite it anymore. You can only continue to recite a book in your hand, which is not conducive to consolidating your memory anytime and anywhere.

Third, the memory is better.

When memorizing by fixed pile method, we can organize the memory data (sentences in the article) into small memory fragments with logical rules through very logical piles, so that we can easily recall all the fragments, and it is not easy to fall into memory like rote memorization, unable to recall large paragraphs or even the beginning, which leads to the inability to recall the whole article.

When recalling articles by fixed pile method, you can recall them in the order of piles, which can ensure that no paragraphs are missed. Even if you can't remember some paragraphs, you know which paragraphs are not well remembered, so you can do targeted review immediately.

The method of rote memorization usually misses a few paragraphs when recalling the whole article, but I don't know at all. I just feel as if I haven't memorized them all, but I just don't know where they are missing. If the book is in your hand, you can also compare it paragraph by paragraph to find out where it is missing; And if the book is not around, you may not know if you are wrong or where you are wrong, and there is no way to make supplementary review in time.

After a long time, the contents recorded by rote may soon be forgotten, while the contents recorded by fixed pile method can be easily remembered because of the excellent memory clues of piles.

Therefore, it is unforgettable to remember with the fixed pile method, and its memory is far stronger than rote memorization.

Therefore, to sum up, it is far from memorizing articles by fixed pile method, with faster memory speed, less review times and higher memory efficiency than the traditional rote memorization method, which is a truly efficient memory method.