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5 MEMORY TIPS FOR THOSE WHO ARE STUDYING
How do you convince your brain to memorize not the final episode of your favorite TV series, but this chapter on the peculiarities of irregular verb declension in Enochian?
The principles of memory can be put into practice as follows:
1. Sensors to the max! Use several sensory systems at once to memorize information. Don't slide your eyes over the lines while sitting on the couch; involve your auditory and muscular memory! The more neurons involved, the more chances the hippocampus will find the information worthy of transferring from short-term to long-term memory. For example, when memorizing the word vigorous, it is a good idea to repeat it a dozen times ... loudly ... while squatting. And then write it down - with a pen, by hand. Okay, you can just draw a squatting man and loudly repeat "vigorous" out loud ten times. As British scientists have proven, a person is more likely to remember what he or she said out loud once than what he or she read out loud three times.
2."Don't slouch!" my grandmother used to say, and she was right. Neurons and neural circuits need oxygen, and oxygen and other stuff are carried by blood, and good posture doesn't squeeze blood vessels or interfere with the delivery of stuff. On the other hand, researchers at San Francisco University proved that people who put their chin down and slouched more easily and quickly recalled their negative experiences than those who maintained good posture. If you want to relive in color how you got a failing grade in the uk essay writing, slouch.
3. Change your study patterns. The unusual is a priority for the hippocampus. Change the font from standard to italic or gothic, change the color of the paper in your printer from white to orange, read your textbook standing on the balcony instead of on the couch. Or on the roof, but not too close to the edge, so as not to be seriously distracted by the first Germanic movement of consonants.
4. Associate it! Connect new information to what you already have. The best technique for connection is association. A perfect example is the famous "memory palace." In our minds, we're walking down a familiar corridor of the Dean's Office, and items from Saturday's shopping list, or all pairs of cranial nerves, or bylaws accrediting necromancers of the second, first, and highest categories are peeking out of the doors.
5. A good night's sleep means a good memory. Going to sleep with a book under your pillow so that the knowledge will be transferred from the pages to your brain during the night will work! But the point isn't the book, it's the pillow. Sleep is just a different kind of work for our brains. In sleep, neurons form new sprouts, bonding more firmly to each other, and the stronger the neural circuitry, the easier it is for it to retain freshly acquired information. Get some sleep, gentlemen!
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